On Friday morning we went to the Origins Game Fair which is a board game convention. I know that you are jealous. It was actually a lot of fun to see some of the new games, kids games, and freaks dressed up.
Connor especially liked the costume shop where you could buy stuff to also dress up.
Friday afternoon we visited the Columbus Science Center (COSI). It was really a nice science center and the best part of all was that because we are members of the Fort Wayne Science Museum, we got in for free. We paid $33 for our Fort Wayne Science Center membership and it would have cost us $45 to get into the museum in Columbus. It kind of made me feel sorry for the people from Columbus who pay $250 for their membership.
Connor and Sophia playing in the kids zone at COSI.
On Saturday we went to the Columbus Zoo. The zoo was really nice, but preachy, and also amusement parkish. It was the oddest combination of ideas I've ever seen in a zoo, but it was really nice. They have lots of animals including Kola Bears which have to be hands down the cutest animals int he entire world. They are just adorable. Connor and I agreed that these bears were cute to die, an expression he coined a year or so ago. The zoo was super preachy. I think every building we went into had a video about how we could save the animals...if we wanted to. Then they would show all the extinct animals to make us feel like big jerks. It was kind of annoying after a while, but then Ben and I started to make a game out of it and it became kind of fun. This zoo also had a water park and amusement park that you could buy ride tickets for if you wanted to. Like I said, just an odd combination.
Connor and Sophia at the zoo.
Sophia was really tired even before we got to the zoo. After about an hour she started using sign language to say all done over and over again. As this works to get her out of her high chair, she was at a total loss as to why this wasn't working to get her out of the stroller. After a few hours she finally crashed and she wasn't waking up for anything.
Evidently her cuteness factor increased after she fell asleep because we got a lot more of that Awww look from the people around us. If you have little kids, you know the look I'm talking about.
All in all it was a great trip, but we were more than ready to come home on Saturday afternoon and have all day Sunday to relax from our vacation.
I wonder if you would get in free at the Ontario Science Centre? We had to pay $230 for our membership.
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