We wanted to do something fun for the last day of summer vacation so we headed to Milwaukee Childrens Museum. The boys had a lot of fun.
They spent a long time in the golf ball rolling area. The Loop the loop would be the favorite.
The next favorite was the eco-friendly constuction project. Surprisingly Peter took to the plumbing area. Pat thought Jamison would have been the plumber. Jamison actually stepped into the manager roll, instructing all the other kids what they need to do. A sign of a good manager is when he gets his hands dirty himself. Jamison picked up the slack working with the insulation, roofing and brick laying.
Next, mechanic. Although they gave their best effort, they could not find the place where the muffler goes. I guess those swedish cars are hard to work on.
At the news station they provided an entertaining news program. My favorite was when Jamison was doing the weather in front of the green screen, Peter replaced the map with a picture of a giant cow.
The Milwaukee Art Museum was designed by Santiago Calatrava. Impressed that I know that? I learned that when my sister took me to MOMA to see a whole Calatrava exhibit! The Art Museum was right across the street from the childrens museum so we had to stop for a photo.
Inside was really cool...Katie could go on about the structure....but i did not retain most of the stuff that she told me. I am pretty excited that I remembered who made it.
Jamison really liked the blown glass structure that looked like "an octopus with thousands of legs". Well, there it is was, the last day of summer vacation! Or was it?
The boys picked out their school clothes, packed their backpacks and stood for the obligatory first day photo.! Waited for the bus to arrive. And when it did, the bus driver said that there was a fire at the Primary Center (1st and 2nd grades) and that they closed the school. No school. 2 VERY SAD boys, in tears and one sad mom because I was looking forward to a day off.
We ran some errands that I needed to do and then stopped at the grocery store for the makings of Tony's meatball subs and ice cream. Ice cream makes everything better. We watched a movie, played some video games and relaxed. The boys were still sad. The 5th and 8th grader that we share the bus stop with did not understand why the boys were sad, they would have loved that their school would burn. So, we learned that a fan in one of the storage rooms stopped working but the electrical current was still flowing, and ignited a cart of books/instructional materials that were close by.
Later in the day it was announced that the school would open 2 Sept, but 2 offices and 1 classroom would not be open until later in the week. That one classroom was Peter's, so it will be interesting to hear where he will spend his day. So this morning....we picked out our clothes, packed our backpacks and took the "second-first day" of school picture.
And I pushed them onto the bus. Please take them.! I havent received a call...so they must be there! Now it is time for some coffee!
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