Max at Seattle Children's Museum We spent the better part of a day (about five hours, including a break for lunch) at the Seattle Children's Museum.

	One of the exhibits was "travel" and it included a little airport security setup. This is Max climbing through the "luggage scanner."
	One of the great things about the Museum was the "neighborhood" section, in which Max got to gas up and ride a bus, shop (see picture), run a taco restaraunt, and act in the theater (mostly variations on Peter Rabbit stories, with a bit of Nutcracker and Sound of Music thrown in).
	Max has had mixed feelings about Killer Whales ever since reading his Penguin book which said that Orca were penguin predators. But, after a few false starts, he finally got up the courage to play on this, too. He had to imagine himself growing, though: he started out, he said, as a little fish; by the end of the day he said he was a baby whale, and quite secure with himself.

He didn't really do Everything Twice, but he did some things more than twice and spent quite a while doing some things once.... definitely got our money's worth on this one. The fact that the food court upstairs had both falafel and a "frankfurter" stand with basil chicken sausage was an added bonus for Mommy and Daddy....  ¶ Friday, December 30, 2005