Ethan discovered a fishing pond stocked with beautiful magnetic rainbow trout. He knew exactly what to do and went to work the second we got there.
They had a kid-sized ant hill attached to the wall that had ladders inside that the kids could climb all around in, with little peep holes covered in netting. It was so cute. I want one installed in my house.
No kids place would be complete without a set of trains, at least not one that we would frequent. The tracks were screwed in place, and the trains moved so smoothly, I thought I might want to screw down Ethan's set of trains at home.
They had a spray painting area where the kids got to make art with "spray" paint. Turns out Ethan didn't have the best of aim and I think got Tammy more than his piece of paper (makes me really look forward to potty training).
One of the most ingenious activities was the area where they had kids doing real painting. They had a huge whiteboard that they would squeegee off after the kids moved on, and they would let the next ones start.
The water exploration area was pretty cute too, and had several stations with different implements to dump water in different ways and then the kids could watch the streams running downhill and through the barricades and such.
There were cars to wash in the water area as well, but E had no interest in that part. He just wanted to drive them around, weird.
The wind tunnel area had buttons to push to change the speed of the wind and then streamers and windmills to hold and watch spin.
I think the farm area was the cutest. It included a farmhouse, complete with puppets, chickens and eggs.
A grand horse to ride, complete with leather saddle.
Building blocks of hay.
And a dress up area, which to be honest kind of grossed me out, but Ethan was all for it.
No, no, I changed my mind, the face painting area was my favorite. They had a corner set up with mirrors and sponges filled with water that you could wet the paints (more like crayons) and then baby wipes to clean up afterwards. I really want to have something like this at my house. I might have liked it too because you could actually tell what I painted on E's face.
We visited this section a few times throughout our visit and Tammy got painted up by Sophie not once, but twice. Each time she looked amazing.
Somehow I missed taking pictures of the whole kitchen/grocery store area even though we spent quite a lot of time there. They had grocery carts with all the goods to go in them as well as cash registers filled with money, and then a dining area to pretend eat. They had a separate snack area where you could eat real food too, but they kept that very much separate from the rest of the toys. Overall, I think Tammy and I both left there saying that we would definitely go back, and I hear that they change it up every few months. I can't wait to see what else they have in the future.
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