Field Trip #3: AZ Museum for Youth

For our third field trip we went to the Arizona Museum for Youth in downtown Mesa. This field trip was in the afternoon so we asked Grandma Molly and Grandpa John to come sit with Annabeth so she didn't have to miss her nap. They helped her finish up her lunch and put her down for her nap.

I fed the boys lunch a bit early and then we drove to "town". I forget how far out we live until I have to go somewhere. It took us about 40 minutes to get there. We were the first ones there. We spent some time watching a cool marble machine they have in the lobby while we waited for the rest of our group.

The kids enjoyed themselves. A favorite was the big "lite brite" like display. The kids had a great time making designs. Several of my boys also spent a good amount of time playing Legos despite the fact they can do that at anytime at home!

They spent some time making art... drawing and mosaics. Another big his was the dress up clothes. They had costumes from several movies. The boys dressed up as Mike and Sully from Monsters Inc. as well as some characters from the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland.

The current theme of the museum was "Dreams". The big display in the middle was a cloud sculpture. There were markers for the kids to write on the cloud.

We made our way home, stopping for a special slushie treat at Circle K. Annabeth was already awake and happy to see us when we got there. She was a good girl for the grandparents and talked the rest of the night about sitting on the couch with Grandma and Grandpa.

Everyone had a good time and, of course, all of it was more fun because we were with friends! But later I joked with Jerry that if he ever loses his job we can buy some Legos and dress up clothes and charge people to come play at our "Youth Museum".