Lessons Learned

Mommy learned a very valuable lesson today.  Attempting to visit the Indianapolis Children's Museum over spring break is not for the faint of heart.  However, if you must do it, taking the two Douglas girls is definitely the way to go.  Both of us were troopers!  We listened, we stayed with mommy and daddy and we had a blast!!
This morning we headed to the big city for a day of fun!  We knew everybody else in Indiana was heading for the same fun when it took us 15 minutes to turn into the museum parking lot.  We've never seen the line anywhere near as long as it was today!!  Ticket lines were all the way outside and around the side of the building!  We decided (along with a 20 minute line of other people) that it was worth buying a year pass just to get in a shorter line!!!  Our parents thought about leaving and coming a different day, but Myla was so excited about the dinosaurs she was seeing in line and I was super excited about the geckos!  So, 30 minutes and season passes later we were on our way!
My school class has been talking about Egypt and pyramids and so I was really happy when I saw that there was a whole exhibit about archaeologists finding an Egyptian tomb, a ship wreck and the Chinese Army Statues!!!  We checked that area out first and stay
ed there the longest!  I even told mommy that I could real all the hieroglyphics for her because I learned about them at school!  Myla and I did some digging for artifacts, too!!
Next we saw the trains.  Myla LOVED them...and one of mommy's favorite parts of the day was when daddy had to climb in the tunnels under the train tracks to get Myla to come out!  She was having so much fun she did not want to leave!  She also loved getting on the real train while it pretended to take us on a trip.  We decided the train was taking us to Chicago!
We checked out the dinosaur exhibit for a short time, but decided we'd go back to that part another day when there weren't quite so many people!!!
Another great part was the gecko exhibit!  I've been wanting to see it for weeks and we had fun.  There were all kinds of the little guys to check out and we even got to put on sticky hands and feet to see what it feels like to stick to the walls like they do!  We both made some geckos on the computer, too!  We saw super heroes and stopped in the Hot Wheels exhibit (a little too boyish for my taste) but it was worth a quick look.
We played in sand, we dressed up as birds, we rode the merry go round....we had hours of fun!  Mom and dad are probably a little more tired than we are because they had to navigate us through the thousands of people, but even they agreed it was a fabulous day!