Ten Things - children's museums

Ten Things!

1. The 6 of us visited the Cincinnati Children's Museum and became members in February of 2020, a month before COVID would hit America, shut down everything for several months, and then make indoor, high-traffic, high-touch areas like children's museums very unappealing.
2. It's bizarre to look at movies and pictures pre-COVID because now social distancing is so engrained. Now, we're conditioned to see people 6 feet apart and in masks. 
3. A bunch of objects falling down on your head can feel like a negative glimpse into what is happened these days -- worries piling up, the bottom dropping out, the world falling apart... But maybe I should look with the same anticipation and wonder at the GOOD that is happening all around. Just like these balls or balloons or confetti falling, things falling all around doesn't have to be all bad.
4. This is an hour and a half away, but we figured it would be a good day trip or pit stop on our way to Indiana.
5. Lucas and I love children's museums. We've even visited them without kids. One of our favorites was experiencing the Please Touch museum on our honeymoon in Philly.
6. Some of my other favorites are the Magic House and City Museum in St. Louis (although the City Museum is really in a category by itself), Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Children's Museum of Evansville (Ind), the WonderLab (Bloomington, Ind.), Muncie Children's Museum (Ind.), COSI (Columbus, OH), and the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago).
7. Once you've been to several, they all start to kind of run together with similar exhibits, but it still is such a fun place to be a kid and PLAY!
8. Our children's museum in Lexington is small and limited, so we usually just go there on free or discounted admission days like MLK Day.
9. Part of being a member of the museum means that you have reciprocal privileges for half-off admission at museums across the country. This past summer, my mom and I were planning on hitting up many of these on our cross-country road trip to Colorado and back through Oklahoma. Sigh. Alas...
10. I keep waiting for that magical time "when the coronavirus is over," but I'm wondering if and when things will ever go back to normal. Now that we're homeschooling, I could see us utilizing a membership here even more than before, but I don't think we'll feel comfortable being in a space like this anytime soon.