Today we ventured to Museum Row as part of the 'I'm going to kindergarten' program. This museum focused on the history of Louisville pre-Revolutionary War, early weapons, mythical creatures, knights and their armor, and the freedom of slaves. Jake is still too young to really gather all the information displayed but he is definitely more interested in things of the past. I'm so excited for him to start reading! Unfortunately, he doesn't have a huge interestest yet but I'm hoping that will change this year. He sees me reading all the time so I'm hoping that sparks things up. Jake was afraid of the special exhibit they has of mythical creatures and clung to me tightly; we couldn't even make it around the corner! Ah well its only temporary and next time if he has a field trip, he will have peer pressure :-)
He did love this dragon!
I want this cute little pixie!
While we were there, a Baptist choir was performing old hymns and it made me want to attend their church just for the music! Something about southern Baptists and big voices!
Well we made it through the museum in about an hour and a half and I really wasn't anxious to go back home yet. The Louisville slugger factory and museum was right across the street so we opted for that since the first museum was free. :-)
Jake was free there too! We had a funny tour guide and were able to hold a bunch of bats and see how they were made etc. When the 30 minute tour was over we both received mini-bats with the slugger logo on it. Jake said, "Now daddy and I can play baseball!" Granted he has a regular plastic bat, oh well, at least he was thinking of Kevin :-)
Now no trip is complete without a form of Lego's in this house..... And why would a museum be any different?! There was a guy who at the age of 7 started building replica's of people houses; namely, his parents! He had the blue prints drawn up and built a to-scale house of legos! Well after he went to engineering school at MIT, he now does that for a living and this particular exhibit was other cities baseball fields! Pretty remarkable!
Wrigley field
Its impossible to see the lyrics of 'Take me out to the ball game' in this picture but HOW Cool?!
(Celebrity spotting) That boy is Macaulay Culkin's brother, Kieran
By then we were museum'd out and hungry for Mexican :-). So we headed to my favorite Senior Iguanas for the most amazing nachos ever!
Sounds like a really fun day at museums. Unbelievable that a man made a stadium out of legos! The Take me out to the ballgame lyrics show up mostly on the players uniforms. Very cool day!
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