San Antonio Children’s Museum

Thanks to a recent Eversave deal, Addie and I finally ventured down to the downtown San Antonio children’s yesterday.  I’ve been avoiding it for the last five years mainly because I don’t do traffic, driving downtown and parking garages.  It was a lot of fun and after about the first half hour of being there, the school field trip groups cleared out and we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  It was well worth the trip downtown, I’m just glad I don’t have to deal with parking garages with our normal stomping grounds at the New Braunfels Children’s Museum. 

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the day…

Hopping aboard the trolley!

She loved the fish tank for some reason.  I guess she forgets that she has practically grown up at Sea World.

Blowing bubbles in the bubble room.  Yes, they do have an entire room dedicated to bubbles!

She worked so hard turning the wheel so her lego would fall over the edge and bounce off the ball.  She did this over and over.

Addie already loved the grocery store at the New Braunfels Children’s Museum and this one put it to shame.  Needless to say, we spent a good hour of our two hour stay buying groceries and restocking the shelves.

No grocery trip is complete without a little bit of ice cream and fresh fish.

Milking the cow.  She was pretty sure this was a statue but kept an eye on the cow just in case.

Collecting eggs from the henhouse.  I love that sweet smile!

This was by far my favorite activity.  It’s a series of pipes , levers, wheels and such powered by air to carry the balls through to a central bucket.  Every so often the bucket would dump all the balls onto the heads of any unsuspecting kids.

If you look closely, you can see balls falling in the middle of the picture.  I wasn’t able to convince Addie to go stand in the middle.  Maybe next time.

If you can deal with getting lost downtown (and I usually have such a good sense of direction too!), parking garages that seem too tiny for even the most compact of cars (we managed to make it up and down from the 6th level all in one piece) and traffic (we went in the middle of the afternoon so it wasn’t too terrible), I would highly recommend making a stop at the San Antonio Children’s Museum.