Discovery Gateway

We went to Discovery Gateway a couple weeks ago for the first time. There were two schools there on field trips and it was crazy busy. I don't think they should allow so many kids in at once. I felt like talking to a manager about getting our money back or half off or something because we couldn't hardly get to half of the things. Even Shawn said, "There are too many friends!" The mother bear came out in me a few times when the school kids would push Shawn out of the way or take something from him. Anyway, I wasn't intending on going off about that, but it was frustrating. Shawn loved playing with everything we could get to especially the little town that was kid sized.

Although you can't tell in this picture, pumping gas was Shawn's favorite activity. We had a wait a long time for his turn to do it and he thought it was the greatest thing. You can see Jon's shoe standing right behind him so a kid couldn't take it away.

This is a full size fake horse that was also a favorite. As soon as Shawn got on it, two other kids jumped on behind him in the saddle. We ended up just petting the horse and saying hi.

I thought this picture was funny because both of them are giving me their cheesy fake smiles.

Shawn was very content on sitting in the back of the helicopter for a long time.

This is Shawn "flying" the helicopter. When he was done I asked him if it was fun to fly and he said, "yeah, it no work"

Another part of the kid size town was a grocery store. There was only one shopping cart while we were there so we had to wait and then quickly steal it away as soon as it was abandoned. This is Shawn's proud face after doing his shopping.

Shawn checking out at cash register

Despite how busy it was, Shawn had a great time and keeps talking about going back. Thanks James and Allison for the great Christmas present.