Pittsburgh Children's Museum

Instead of just gong up to Pittsburgh to pick up my sister from the airport (she came from PNG), we decided to make a day of it. Although we do a lot of fun activities as a family I hardly ever count them as a "field trip." Still I made the boys make up the missed work over the next couple days (aren't I just an awful teacher). The children't museum was just right for our guys age group. The 3rd floor had a water place where they could play with boats and currents and rubber ducks. On the main floor there was a section dedicated to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Even the trolley and original puppets. They also had a craft center where the older boys made their own colored sheets of paper. There was a neat place called the garage that had a ball track across the ceiling, parachutes and pulleys and a smart car. Next door there was a room to play with magnets and on the other side a room called "Whoosh." In that room the boys made parachutes, played in a wind tunnel, airplane, and got to make their own rockets. After they made the paper rockets they tried to get them through hoops hanging from the ceiling by shooting them up with air. That was Caleb's favorite. Another room was called the Attic and had funny mirrors and a slanted room. In the hallways they also had neat attractions. We spent about 4 1/2 hours there. Then we picked up Holly and went to eat at Long John Silver's before heading home.