Discovery museum

Today we met some friends at the Bay Area Discovery Museum at Fort Baker. There are a *lot* of things for kids to do there, but what I liked most of all was that there were fun and engaging activities for young children (e.g. Alex!). Usually Alex doesn't escape from the stroller very much during museum visits, but this time he was able to do a lot of crawling over fuzzy things and exploring. In one section there is wall-to-wall carpeting as well as random stuffed animals. Alex ignored all of the dogs, cats and piggies and went for the vulture

After a lot of high speed crawling and cackling, he ran out of steam.

Zoe, of course, was in heaven and ran around like a little crazy thing. She was repairing a mini Golden Gate bridge:

Playing some music:


Playing in the sand box:

And doing the Hula Hoop.

She was not especially successful in this final endeavor: Chloe would fling the hoop around her, and Zoe would swing her hips frantically, but completeley out of sync with the hoop. The hoop would then clatter to the ground and she would shriek "MORE!"

Anyway, a big thumbs up to the Discovery Museum. If we still lived here, we would definitely buy a membership. As soon as we left, we got swept into a classic bay area traffic jam, like almost every other time we have taken the freeway anywhere here.