We stopped by our favorite place this week, the Please Touch Museum, after a couple month hiatus since our membership had run out. The little guy had been asking to return for a while, so I renewed the membership, and we went this week. He loves the place and was so excited to check out the remodeled hospital in the museum. CHOP sponsors the exhibit, which is a model of their ER along with a kid-sized ambulance. We visited that exhibit at least twice, since he had so much fun "driving" the ambulance. It even had a little stretcher in the back, along with lights and a radio sounding out calls for help. He has been talking about it all week. Thankfully we've never actually been in the real CHOP ER, so I presume it's a mini model of the place. There was an X-ray machine that could be used on doll patients and an MRI that also scanned dolls. My guy said he had seen one of those machines on a tv commercial before, so he knew what it was! He liked working at the admissions desk!
His other favorite exhibit is the transportation room, including a life sized (half) SEPTA bus. The museum wasn't too crowded, so he got to drive it for a while and play with all of the switches, which he discovered actually make bus sounds, turn on lights, etc. When the place is crowded there isn't enough time to explore all of that, so he really enjoyed this visit. I told him that his daddy's daddy use to drive a SEPTA bus too, which really impressed him. His grandfather would have enjoyed his enthusiasm for transportation!
Here he is driving to Philadelphia!
One of the cool things to me at the Please Touch Museum is the ever changing toy exhibits. It seems that each time we visit I discover a new display somewhere, often of toys I remember from my childhood. This time we saw a huge display of rubber duckies!
