Trip To Pittsburgh - The End

On Monday of our trip we decided to take Grace to the Children's Museum in Pittsburgh. Kelly and Chris met us there with the kids and Kelly's best friend from our childhood also met us there with her two kids. We started off in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. There was a puppet theater, a trolley that the kids could sit in and a bunch of other fun activities.


Next we moved on to the art studio. This place was awsome! Right in the middle was what looked like a huge abstract tree sculpture. AS it turned out it was also a climbing structure. That is where the kids went first. I was a bit nervous at first. I thought "what if Grace gets up there and gets scared and can't get back down?" There was no stopping her so I figured that we would cross that bridge when we come to it. Last up the structure was Hailey. Slowly pulling her way up each level she made it 3/4 of the way up. She was having a great time. All of the other kids had made their way to the top and were back down, but Hailey was just hanging out up there. We all started getting nervous after she was up there for a few minutes. We tried everything to coax her down. We even sent some older kids up there to get her, but she wouldn't budge. Finally, one of the workers went up and got her down a couple of levels, but Kelly had to go in and get her the rest of the way. It was funny ... but not so funny all at the same time. In the meantime, Grace and the other kids played with clay, painted pictures, and did silk screen art.


Some of the other exhibits we spent time in was the garage, which had a real car that the kids could play in and a bunch of inventions. Then there was sort of a playhouse area with costumes, crazy mirrors and a really fast slide.

That museum was so awsome. We spent 3 hours there and we didn't even get to the second floor. I think the adults had as much, if not more fun then the kids. Tim is still bitter that we didn't get to the second floor.

After the museum we went to Grandma's house for a BBQ where we hung out with the family. It was a perfect ending to a great trip. The next day we headed back to California.