Worst childrens museum EVER

Yesterday my friend, Lacy, and I were talking about the new Fort Worth childrens museum and how we should go before the boys turned 3 so they would be free. We decided to go today and I double checked their website to make sure that kids 2 and under are in fact free. So this morning we meet there downtown and as we were waiting in line to pay, we noticed a sign that said "Effective June 12th ages 2-12 pay children's rate". So basically 3 days ago they started charging for 2 year olds. Nice. I get up to the front of the line to pay and tell the woman, "You guys need to update your website. The only reason I came today is because I thought he was free." She replied "Yeah, we do need to update the website." Great. Thanks. So I pay a whopping $24 (plus $5 parking) to get me and the boys into the museum.

If you know me at all, you know I'm pretty cheap so I hate paying that much money to get into something unless it's really awesome. So after I paid I thought, well it's brand new, I bet it's really cool. Wrong. There was one really cool thing and the rest was oh so lame. It was basically one big room with all the standard childrens museum type stuff like a pretend grocery store and pretend ambulance/doctor area. Then there are building blocks (which we have at home) and car/train tracks (which we have at home). It was really very disappointing. On the bright side, at least we found out without paying for Kelly too or dragging the grandparents or someone else down there.

Anyway, onto the cool part. There was an outdoor area with some really cool interactive water features. Both boys really liked it and it was the coolest water thing I've seen before, but not $29 cool. This thing had water guns that you squirt at different blue paddles. The paddles then turned to make other things move.





But what the boys really liked was this water table where you could connect pipes to make the water flow differently. Cason loves connecting things and adding water to the mix just makes it even better.





Ignore me in this picture. I'm wearing glasses because I may or may not be getting LASIK surgery on Friday. I really should decide that soon...













If you pump this T handle up and down, water shoots out of the hole. Any time there is water squirting, Cason makes hilarious faces. Seriously hilarious.



Rycie trying to hang with the big boys.



That was it for the childrens museum so we went through the rest of the museum, which didn't take much longer. There was a dinosaur dig area but even Cason wasn't all that impressed and he loves to dig.





And if anyone is interested, the best childrens museum I've been to, and the only one that was REALLY worth the money, is the one in Everett, Washington. If I lived there, I would buy a membership.