December Winter Break 2011

Museum Hoppin'

During winter break here, we spent our days checking out the great museums around Boston. By the end of the vacation, the kids were forbidding the word "museum" from leaving my mouth, so I guess they had had their fill :)

Hila checks out some plastic fruit at the kids' sized grocery store

An authentic Japanese home from the early 1900s.
 Hila is in the seat of honour which faces the mantlepiece.

Hila enjoys the Japanese bathroom - mostly because of
the cool Hello Kitty slippers :)

Clay-creation at the MFA.

Adin and Avishai cozy up to watch the sealions

The incredible jellyfish tank.

Recreation of the Galileo experiment.

Ariel uses a kippa clip to complete his electrical circuit.

Hila watches the penguins at their feeding time

We visited the aquarium in downtown Boston, which was amazing. Adin was in heaven as he loves anything "shark", I liked the penguins and thought that the jellyfish were gorgeous. We went outside to see the sea lions perform, and it was a bit cold, Adin and Avishai shared Josh's jacket as they watch the show, creating their own creature - a brown four legged, two-headed "Adin-ishai". (Josh may have appreciated the sea lion who apparently had cataracts, and further appreciated not being consulted about it on his day off).

We learned about crabs, penguins, jellyfish, and got to touch sting rays etc. 

The next day, we enjoyed the Childrens Museum. One of the exhibits was a Japanese house from 100 years ago that was flown - in pieces - to Boston and then rebuilt. It was interesting to learn about the different rooms and furniture, but Hila was mostly enamoured with the "Hello Kitty" slippers in the bathroom.

After this was the Science Museum. We watched a presentation about volcanoes, and Hila sat nicely, pretending to take pictures of the show on her "camera" that is a blue building block that Adin painted a lens on it, along with Hila's name. She "snapped" many pictures that day and then later was spied speaking on it urgently (apparently it's actually a phone with a camera...)

Last, we went to the Museum Of Fine Arts with Josh M (a REALartist!) and kids. We rotated through different stations with different art projects - watercolour, clay, and print-making. The boys made some nice projects, and Hila made a nice mess :)