We had so much fun at the Children’s Museum of Virginia. There were quite a few unique exhibits we hadn’t seen before at other children’s museums and we even got to see a planetarium show.
Playing music
Writing checks
Somehow, even after a full morning at the children’s museum we still had enough energy to drive across town, over the Jamestown River (or is it considered the Chesapeake Bay at this point? The kids absolutely did not agree with calling such an enormous and vast body of water a “river”, haha) and over to the Mariner’s Museum and Park. This was one of my favorite museums we have visited. I was completely unprepared for it to be so awesome, and because I thought we would come back with Dave another day (we didn’t have time), I hardly took any photos. Our favorite parts were seeing the ton of artifacts from the USS Monitor, the recreation of the resurrection of the Merrimac to the CSS Virginia, some incredibly beautiful and detailed model ships made by August Crabtree, and a whole room of small watercraft from all over the world. Two hours was not enough time to see it all and - I kid you not - my kids were into it the entire time. It was a miracle. No wonder it was my favorite!
The outdoor playground was tons of fun.
I didn’t write it down and don’t remember now but this tiny sailboat was used by someone to go a really far distance across an ocean at some point. Ha!
A narwhal horn!
