Discovering a Museum of Fun

I've been wanting to check out this Discovery Kids Museum forever, but just haven't gotten around to it.  It is located on Bainbridge Island, about 30 miles away, and it's not often that we get out that direction.  But today we didn't have much planned other than Flu shots (ugh...), so afterwards, while Zac had his weekly afternoon date with Gram, Scotty Trev and I took the opportunity to head out to the museum.  Thought I would test the waters with just two kids instead of having both the older ones with me in case it didn't go so smoothly.  Turns out, mid-day on Thursdays is the best time to go because we had the whole place to ourselves for a good while.  It was pretty darn cool and for just $4 admission, it was the best two hours Scotty has probably had in a long time!  There was a big tree house to climb and different stations like a Market complete with play food, cash register and play money; a banking/teller station; a doctors office; a waterfront area with a ship's helm; and a big dirt digging area with a bunch of construction toys.  Upstairs was a whole other area that had several contraptions to use with golf balls and a "fabrication station" where you could build things with PVC pipes.  It was Brilliant!  To be honest, I didn't snap a lot of pics because I was playing right along with him a lot of the time!  But here's a few that I managed to get.  We will definitely be heading back there again sometime with Zac....afterall, first Thursdays of the month are FREE :)

I always thought these things were toys!

One of the many golf ball contraptions

Building something with those pipes