Nana and I drove the girls out to Massachusetts for the 4th of July festivities. On the way, we overnighted in Rochester, New York, home to The National Museum of Play. Also known as paradise for children. We were there for about four hours and hardly scratched the surface of it. We played with the detective house, romped through Reading Adventureland, prepared a plastic lunch in the Berenstain Bears restaurant and spent a good long while in this 1890's house. Lillian played some lovely music while Naomi prepared some fairy muffins in the cast iron oven.
Duxbury awaited us with a bounce house, bubbles, a beach, a parade and a dozen adoring family members. Paradise revisited.
We visited the New England Aquarium in Boston and loved it. The girls were thrilled by the touch tank full of bull-nosed rays and the penguins. Lillian was also obsessed with the computer touch pads by the big central tank that fills the whole three stories of the building. We had to cover them up in order to get her to look at the giant sea turtle swimming right in front of us.
Here we are modeling the superhero capes that Pat whipped up while we were petting sea creatures.
