Articulate Your Bus

I took Henry to the museum today to see what was hailed as the spectacular dinosaur adventure for kids. Really it was just a couple of tables full of hundres of photocopied colour-in pictures of dinosaurs and a small sandpit with some bits of concrete disguised as dinosaur fossils. Henry and Gabe, his friend we met up with, thought the scissors provided for cutting were pretty cool for all of about two minutes. If we had only gone to see that I would have been bitterly disappointed because there was a lot of jostling of other parents and small children just to get to the scissors and colouring pictures.

We decided to hotfoot it to the dinosaur garden to eat lunch instead. After that we said goodbye to our companions and Henry and I headed back in to the museum to really check it out. I really didn't think Henry would be all that interested because he's usually not unless there are pigeons to chase and rocks to climb on. He was so fascinated he didn't want to leave. We were there for over three hours. He wanted to touch everything that could be touched and look at everything that could be looked at and then pretend he was Diego at the stuffed animal exhibit. My back started to hurt and the only way to get him to leave was to bribe him with a bus ride home and a milkshake on the way.

Before getting on the bus we relaxed for a bit at a cafe and drank our milkshakes. While there he told me his favourite part of the day was seeing the stuffed animals but he would probably "really like" the bus ride too. He did really like the bus ride. So much so that he pressed the buzzer several times which elicited some very snide expressions from the driver. Fortunately Henry was able to put a smile back on the driver's face when we exited by informing the bus driver that he wasn't driving an articulated bus!