Ports Discovery Children's Museum

We had planned to take a three day vacation up to Phillie, but with Taryn breaking her arm and the other crazy events of the past two weeks we decided just to do a manageable day trip. Lately I've been hearing from everyone how great the Ports Discovery Children's Museum in Baltimore is for my age children, so we ventured up for the day. We forgot to stop for a picnic so we decided on a car picnic in the parking garage. Good times!

The center of the museum is like a fun land, with games, a gigantic play center like the ones at McDonald's. Not very educational, but definitely entertaining for Garrett.

We decided to move on to the next floor were the kids LOVES practicing their cowpoke skills. Garrett was focused on roping the calf. With a little help from Mom, he had some success!

Kendall decided to learn from the video instructions. She followed them step by step, she even decided to add in sound effects like yelling, "Yaw-yaw!" Her Grandpa would be proud.

Although she wasn't trying, in the end the only thing she caught was Garrett.

Poor Tary-taryz was either too little, too much of a nuisance, or her cast could get wet, so she was confined to basically two playrooms in the museum. But she did love the balls, and games that were made available to her.

Besides the Egyptian room, the Water Works was the only other fun educational center in the museum. Garrett spent over an hour playing with these pipes. There was a small amount of water pressure so you had to channel all the pipes so that the water would flow the direction you wanted it too.

He was soaking wet, but had a great time.

He was so proud of his Water Works project. Garrett is going to love Science Fairs. I don't know how much I'm going to love them?

Next, Keith and Garrett decided to build a house with the Lincoln Logs. Garrett was quite proud of his creation, but.....

Taryn didn't quite have as much respect for the masterpiece. She's a Lincoln Log house's worst natural disaster.

Garrett wasn't too sad because Dad taught him how to launch logs across the room by making a catapult. I'm sure the attendent was loving that.