Museum Hopper

this week, i went to the henry ford museum on friday with my friend kate and her two little kids!  kate has a membership to the museum and the village.  the littlest guy managed to sleep just about the entire museum visit...her other son is 2 and just loved the museum. i had never quite realized what a big place the henry ford museum is.  while we were there, people were walking laps around the outside to get exercise.  we did manage to see most of it although perhaps not with the greatest detail.   we saw the cars, trains, planes, tractors, doll houses and even an oscar meyer weinermobile!   as you can imagine, this is a 2 year old dream day.  i thought the museum had a great mix of things that could be touched and what could not be touched.  the little guy obviously wanted to get in every car, but he did end up having enough things he could climb in, like an old diner, plane, trains and inside a tractor.  a surprise hit was the ...

happy holidays!  over the break, my boyfriend and i decided to go to detroit and check out the detroit science center .  if you can't tell the trend, my boyfriend likes the science, hands on museums.  we headed down there for an afternoon of fun. we got there around 2 and were able to park in the lot right outside the front of the museum.  this parking lot was a "drop the parking money in the box" type of lot, so be sure to have exact change ($5);  otherwise you will need to go into the museum to get it. so, we headed in and checked out the speed section, which had famous cars, boats, motor racing as well as celebratory plaques of famous and innovators in the fields.  we then walked further into the rest of the museum.  we were first struck that a few portions of it were closed for repairs or maybe renovations.  i liked the energy portion about fueling cars.  we then wandered through the health and body section, which was interesting....