Kid City

Hi everyone! Chris and James and I are back from our two-week vacation to New England! We took a direct flight from Hartford yesterday, and although it was 5 1/2 hours, James was a rockstar! We were very proud of him. It is great when other passengers and the crew tell you how well-behaved your child is.

I have not been able to keep up with my vacation updates the way I would have liked to, so every few days I wil try to post some of what was keeping us busy while we were away.

Scroll down a few posts before this to see some early notes about Kimmy's baby shower, and James and Garrin playing in the leaves in Massachusetts, and our much-anticipated trip to Shady Glen.

In this post I will cover our visit to Kid City, a children's museum in Middletown. I would highly reccomend it. I went there with Chris and Gini and Connor about 5 years ago. Since then they have added another entire building of kids exploration. It was AWESOME!



One of the first exhbits is a farm room. James had a great time peeting the pigs! His Grandma would have loved this room!



There was a great room that was a pirate ship. James liked to look through one of the portholes.



Here he is walking the plank!



Check out this awesome train table!




Taking a ride with his Dad in an old VW bug. How CUTE!



What a great old cash register!



Running like crazy through the little diner.



One of the areas was a miniature version of Middletown, complete with cars. He was in heaven!



He had a blast beating on drums in the music room.



One of James' favorite areas in the childrens' museum was the construction room filled with blocks.





We took a hot air balloon ride over the model train tracks together. Hi Dad!




After a couple of hours of running around, walking the gang plank, beating drums, see-sawing, watching model trains, playing with blocks, petting farm animals, driving a VW bug and riding in a hot air balloon, James was all tuckered out. Who could blame him!