Day 10 (tues)

We went to the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose.

I haven't been to this place since I was a little kid, and it was even better than I remembered.

The children's literature lover in me fell head over heels for the Clifford section of the museum.  They had the entire town set up, with props and costumes in each for the children to explore.  The sets were amazing and we felt like we were inside the pages of a Norman Bridwell book. This was my favorite part of the museum.

Reese loved all of the science exhibits.  She created electricity by turning cranks and spinning a windmill, she put on a dinosaur shadow puppet show, and got to look at her hair and her fingers under a giant microscope.

Quincy loved the water area but her favorite was the bubble room where you could create walls of rainbow bubbles to put your arms through.

 The best part about this place is that they had activities to entertain all ages.  I took Reese and Quincy to make corn husk dolls (I remember making one as a kid at this place) and Aaron took Corbin to play in the wing that was geared specifically for 2-4 yr old children.  Everyone always had an age appropriate activity to do.

But who had the most fun? Aaron!  They had a water section where streams of water would suspend plastic balls in the air, or send them through baskets and funnels.  It was crazy awesome. Aaron had a crowd of kids gathered around him to watch as he lined up the balls so they'd go up the streams through a cool marble maze type contraption.