Playing Hard

It's 11.15pm right now, and from the apartment, I can hear the sea lions at the harbour calling. It's a novel experience. J was quite thrilled to be able to hear them. (He's so into animals right now; he's already asked to have a dog at home. So it begins.)

So it would appear that our new goal in life is to visit every children's museum, or equivalent, that we possibly can while we're here in the States. Today it was the Bay Area Discovery Center in Sausalito.

On the way there, we took the requisite tourist picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. (It's still foggy here! Unlike in Claremont, which is going through a heatwave.)


Such a busy busy tiring day for the kids, it's been. The nice thing about the Bay Area Discovery Center was that it had such a big outdoor play area, quite unlike most of the other children's museums we've been to. Highlights:

(Okay, okay, so it was my idea for J to put on the cowboy hat. As you can see, he wasn't very pleased about it, so he pulled it down low so I couldn't see his face.)

E busy playing with the girls!

It isn't immediately obvious, but J's learning about water currents here. E just doesn't want to be left out, so she clambered up to see what was going on.

My kids are not to be bullied. J apparently fought for his right to play steering the boat. The other kid, whom K says was bigger than him, was carried away crying. E too defended her right, successfully, to hold a toy train against a slightly bigger boy than her. At least she didn't make the boy cry. *Sigh* Mortified.