A couple of weeks ago I took Lydia up to the INK (Interactive Neighborhood for Kids) Museum in Gainesville. I'd never been there before but it was a really neat place! Everything is kid sized and they have at least a dozen different mini areas: supermaket, veterinarian, hospital, hair dresser, diner, etc. It is designed for kids to explore all different kinds of places on their own level and to be anyone or anything they want to be for the day.
We spent a lot of time in the "grocery store". We were there about 3 different time. This girl LOVES the grocery store in general. Maybe it's the fact that she always gets a snack when we go shopping? In any case, she loved pulling things off the shelves and putting them in her cart. She was less enthusiastic about putting everything back when the cart got full, but she still did pretty good.
Lydia was FASCINATED by the model train set that had about a million different buttons you could push to make things move and/or light up. It was pretty cool!
Lydia also played doctor. She really loves baby dolls and so she had a blast carrying them around the "hospital".
She also "milked" a cow. No, really, stuff came out of the udders and everything.
And, being fascinated by sirens, she was delighted to find they had a full-sized police car she could explore and push all the buttons!
Then she found the baby doll stroller and had a ball pushing that around (with books and dolls in it) for at least 10 minutes.
The last thing Lydia found before we left was a RAMP. This girl is obsessed with ramps. So then she did this for another 10 minutes until we left.
We really had a great time at the INK Museum and we will definitely be going back!
