Friday Night at McDonald's

So we gathered the troops to go to the Children's Museum of Phoenix on Friday night, since it is supposed to be free on the first Friday evening of the month. But after battling traffic all of the way over there, the place was decidedly closed. After mulling over the possibility of breaking in with a couple of other families who were equally frustrated outside, we decided to take the safe route and find something else to do.

After deliberating, and with Sarah repeatedly telling us that she wanted to go somewhere to "wun awound", we decided to head over to our neighborhood McDonald's play area.

Sarah said, "Nooo! I don't want to go to McDowell! I want to go wun awound!"

Papa: "Sarah, we are talking about McDonald's, remember the place with the kids and the hamburgers? Not McDowell, McDonald's."

Sarah: "I want that place! McDonald's!"

(We live near a street called McDowell and Sarah knows that when we are there, we are almost home, and not going to any fun kids' places.)

The kids loved it and Sarah climbed all the way up to the top of the play structure for the very first time - several play structure stories in the air. Stephen also climbed over some lower-level steps for the first time and went into a windowed tunnel with Mama and Sarah.

And yes, we ate a little bit of the dreaded McDonald's psuedo-food.

Not sure what happened with the Children's Museum but we hope to go visit some other time, as the online reviews say it is pretty nice.

After that, we hit Lowe's, which I did not think would be a kids' event, but I learned about the cool car-cart things they have there that made it all fun for the kids. Also we wandered though the plants section, which brought me fond memories of going to plant nurseries with my dad as a kid.

Love,

Papa