Necessary Roughness

We went to the Children’s Museum in Cleveland. It was the last day of the Galapagos Sand exhibit, which was an indoor sand box about the size of a hotel room. The exhibit included a small ship, a tent, various things to bury and unearth, and a sand sculpture of a turtle. Fenced away from the activity area, the turtle used 18 tons of sand and took two weeks to create.

Downstairs in the museum were a couple of cool exhibits that even older kids would like. There was a water table with various jets coming out of the sides and bottoms where someone could attach pipes and make fountains. The table also had a lock, as seen on large rivers, and an area where one can wall off the flow of the water and make the current flow from left to right. The other cool exhibit was a real TV camera pointed at a U.S. map. Kids could see themselves on a monitor as they pretended to be meteorologists.

For lunch, a trip to the Hard Rock Cafe, where two local sportscasters (WTAM?) were broadcasting a show. Downstairs the music was very loud. I had concerns the kids wouldn’t handle it, but they did OK.

Since we were in the area last, Cleveland has really torn up the area at Euclid and Stearns, removing most of the street signs and making the place unnavigable for tourists. I dare say we contributed significantly to Cleveland’s air pollution.

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