The Strong Museum

Marcus found The Strong: National Museum of Play online while researching our trip, and we decided Chase would have a blast and needed to go.  Definitely a fun choice!

The first thing you see is a carousel, which Chase loved watching.

He'd sit on a horse for a second, but not if it was higher in the air.  Apparently he is afraid of heights or something because he had a huge meltdown about actually riding on the carousel.

Chase LOVED the train section.  He probably would've stayed there all day.

We wanted to check out other areas, so we pulled him away to the kids grocery store.

The kids get to shop around the store with a small cart.

Then they purchase their items.  So cute.

The next place Chase wanted to see was the post office -- he loves keys.

He would open up the boxes

And check for any mail

Checking the mail box is one of Chase's favorite activities at home, so this was really fun.

Of course he was drawn to a keyboard.

As well as scissors.

There were so many sections in the museum, including train stations, Sesame Street, and motion experiments.  Chase liked testing out the round xylophone.

Marcus enjoyed the percussion too.

And Marcus enjoyed the section devoted to comic book heroes and old video games :)

It's an entire family friendly museum with so many historical toys and play exhibits.  We were all pretty exhausted after all the fun.

Chase crashed and didn't move for a couple hours.
Glad we went and he had such a great time!