DAY 18: Evening in the city

Last night, we had an early dinner in Boston and then took EJ to the newly-renovated Boston Children's Museum. The museum just re-opened a few weeks ago after being closed for nearly four months for a $47 million dollar expansion and renovation project. The museum was a bit dated and, as you can imagine, quite abused from all the pint-sized visitors over the years, but we have to give it two thumbs up!

EJ has aged out of a lot of the exhibits there, but that didn't stop her from enjoying them all. There is a really cool new climbing structure right inside the entrance, and even the older exhibits look refreshed. For Arthur fans, there is an expanded exhibit that now also includes Postcards From Buster.

Anyway, if you live in the Boston area and have kids under 8, it's worth a visit. Friday night visits between 5 and 9 PM only cost $1, thanks to a partnership with Target. And while there aren't a lot of kid friendly restaurants within a few blocks of the museum (we ate at the Cheesecake Factory at the Cambridgeside Galleria first), you'll be happy to know that the McD's at the museum was replaced by an Au Bon Pain.

This photo was in the science exhibit...she had to pull her weight up on a pulley system:

This is from an exhibit with a video system projected onto a wall and the video interacts with you when you stand there. This particular one had butterflies fluttering around and when you stood in front of the screen, they would land on you:

Climbing on the rock wall:


On the lighted game board floor:

With David Ortiz. Congrats to the Sox for beating the Yankees AGAIN last night in a marathon four-hour (but still only nine innings) game. That's seven losses in a row for the Yanks.