Pittsburgh, part 2: Children's Museum "Getting there"

As we were leaving Delaware and sitting at the airport in Philadelphia, C and I did a little exploring, and were thrilled at what we found-a play area sponsored by "The Please Touch Museum". I was thoroughly impressed. Of course, I'd left my camera back at the gate with F. They had an amazing setup with a mock large passenger airplane, control tower, and twin engine plane. Kids could communicate with each other from the passenger plane and control tower, and fuel up the twin engine. The control tower had a slide attached and there was simply an incredible number of things to look at and play with--too many to describe here. Prior to that point, I had merely hoped to take C to the Children's Museum in Pittsburgh, not entirely sure that she was old enough to enjoy it. Seeing her interact with the display at the airport, I changed that "hope" to a definite "plan". When we arrived in Pittsburgh, we started to see billboard advertisements with Clifford, the Big Red Dog advertised. Looking closer, we discovered that they were for a special exhibit at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. Now, we simply HAD to go...C watches Clifford, has a Clifford stuffie, and started pointing at the billboards once in Pittsburgh. We originally thought that the Children's Museum would be co-located with the Carnegie Museums, which is why we went there first. We were mistaken. Once we found the Children's Museum though, we had a good laugh, as F had earlier pointed the building out to me as the planetarium Gung gung and Po po had taken him to as a youngster. F didn't realize it though, until we were in the building and he discovered the pendulum that he recalled from the planetarium days in the now-food court! We did, however, wish that we'd been able to reverse our choices and spend more time at the Children's Museum than at the Carnegie Museums, considering how much C loved it. Look how excited she was just to get there (to see Clifford!) More about the museum later!