So last Sunday we took our children to the
MOST museum. The kids were super excited and there seem to be tons of things they could do there. We purchased tickets to the IMAX Omni-theather Coral Show as well. We got a locker to put all of bags and jackets in and headed downstairs to start the museum fun.
Right off the bat we notice our 3 year old (who is potty trained) needs to pee. Daddy takes him into the bathroom and they are in there for about 20 minutes. Celtic, Guinevere, and I stay at the same exhibit waiting for them, we don't want Daddy or Sheamus to miss out on anything.
Hubby comes out, gives me an exasperated look and says " You have to take him, he refuses to go for me". So I take Sheamus in, remember I am heavily pregnant. Sheamus and I are standing in the handicap bathroom, he is dancing in his pants and refuses to go. Every time someone flushes a toilet or turns on the air dryers, he gets scared and squeezes my legs. Needless to say, he doesn't go with me either. So we go out to find Daddy and the other two kids at the same exhibit waiting for us. And I tell hubby to go up to the locker and grab one of Guinevere's diapers to put on Sheamus. (We did have a portable potty seat with us, but it was in the van and the van was outside half way around the building, in the rain, and Sheamus told me he wouldn't go in it even if we did bring it inside.)
Hubby goes upstairs grabs a diaper takes Sheamus into the bathroom along with Celtic, because now Celtic has to go to the bathroom. Sheamus pees his pants before they get to the bathroom.
Hubby, Celtic and Sheamus come back out. Hubby tells me what happened and I told him there is a change of clothes for him in the locker. Hubby says forget it, he has already striped him of his underwear put the diaper on him and then put his pants, socks and shoes back on and that's it.
By now hubby and I are getting to the point of exhaustion and we have not even started looking at anything yet. So we start going around the exhibits, the first room is filled with very loud weighted machines that the kids can work. Except for only Celtic really has the strength to work them and Guinevere starts crying because she has very sensitive ears.
So we move on after Celtic has tried all the machines. Guinevere is still not happy. We find some fossils the kids can dig out of the sand. They have fun there for about 30 minutes. There are some salt water fish, a waterfall, a playground (which we skip, because there are lots of kids in there and chances are Sheamus and Guinevere would get stuck at the top inside and then get scared).
We head upstairs were they have an amazing toothpick town exhibit, where the artist is inside the protective case working on a new building. They have a train town, where you can watch the trains traveling around, the kids liked that, but Sheamus and Guinevere had to be lifted up by Daddy one at a time.
So now the kids are hungry, I have snacks in my bag, but Hubby says he is not going back to the lockers again. So we stop at their vending machines which are way overpriced. When I start getting snacks out for every0one, we hear that our show is going to start in about 10 minutes. Snacks are not aloud out of that area. So we give each of the kids a little bit to eat and a swallow or two of some lemonade.
We finally track down the entrance to the Omni-theatre and grab some seats. This IMAX has a HUGE rounded screen above your head and you sit in a reclined seat to watch. Sheamus and Guinevere are not happy with that, they are disoriented. Sheamus sits on the edge his seat the whole time and stares around at the audience while Guinevere pulls her shoes off and demands we put them back on over and over. So really the only person that saw the show was Celtic.
After the show, we go through the gift shop and then we head out. We get all of the kids buckled in and hubby shuts the sliding door. It shuts and then it pops back open. Are you kidding me? Seriously? He closes it again and pushes it in so it fits into the van. We think it is fixed, hubby climbs in and we start to head out. About a mile down the road the door opens about 3 inches and the kids start freaking out. We immediately pull over at a Denny's. We are starving and tired we just want to get home and now we are stuck 40 minutes from home, in the city.
We call Ev's stepmom and dad. Sue (stepmom) answers the phone, Pat (dad) is out at the farm somewhere and she will have to go out and find him ( he helps us out with our vehicles). She says she will call us back when they are heading out. Meanwhile I figure we can take the kids in and get some dinner. Hubby does not want to do that so I say out loud "What can we tie the door shut with? Maybe one of our jackets?" and then I remember that I had purchased an emergency car kit back for my first car(about 5 years ago) and it was in this van now, we had never used it before. I tell my husband to go and dig it out as I am pretty sure there is some rope in there. Sure enough he finds a long think bright yellow towing rope in there. So he climbs in, attaches the rope to the handle of the sliding door and then to his passenger side door handle.
We start heading home very slowly at the same time trying to get ahold of Sue to let her know we are heading home and not to come out to Syracuse. The line is busy, she is probably on the internet looking up directions. (They live out in the country where you can not get the internet line that allows your calls to come through as well) The battery to the cell phone is almost dead, but we keep trying, we have to get through to her, they don't have a cell phone, so we have to make sure to catch them before they leave their house. We finally get through, Sue asks "Is that safe" Hubby responds "It has to be, we have to get our kids home"
We arrive home safe and sound. Finally the day has ended. It was an interesting trip to say the least, full of adventure. Hubby and I talk later and decide that the two little ones probably are not old enough for the museum yet and next time one of us should just take Celtic.
Now hubby is driving the van out to college everyday with the sliding door roped to the front passenger side door and then wrapped around the passenger seat. We have had so many issues with that van this year, I want to set it on fire. I don't think I mentioned that the back hatch window is missing and there is a large frosted truck mat bolted and duct taped to the back. Yeah that happened about 3 weeks ago, my husband slide on some ice and the van went off the road wedging itself neatly between a telephone pole and the guide wire. Didn't damage anything but a horse fence and the back window shattered.
Two weeks before that the gas hose sprung a leak and we almost didn't make it to our destination, not to mention the intoxicating fumes.
Oi vay.
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