I had been receiving emails that Gymboree (a kids clothing store in the mall) was having their $12.99 sale. EVERYTHING in the store was on sale for $12.99 or less. Considering that most items at Gymboree are at least $30, the $12.99 sale is the ONLY sale that would convince me to buy something in that store. Kyle mentioned that the email he saw, said that today was the last day and so we decided to head over to the mall when we were done at the Home Depot Kids Workshop.
By the time we got to the mall it was lunch time, and I was getting really hungry, which meant that I was also getting rather grouchy. We decided to have lunch in the food court, even though that tends to end up being expensive. I sat with the kids while Kyle went to the various restaurants to get the food that the kids had requested for lunch. While we were waiting for him to return with food, I noticed an ad standing on our table. It was an ad for an art museum that was supposed to be upstairs in the mall. I had NO idea that the mall even had an upstairs! Kyle came back and we got the kids fed and as we sat to eat as well, I showed it to him. There was a map showing where the stairs were to get to the museum upstairs and Kyle said “Let’s go check it out.”
So after we had all finished eating and we made a potty stop and got everyone washed up, we headed for where the map said the stairs were. We found them, and as we wondered how we were going to get the stroller upstairs, we saw a sign saying that the first Saturday of every month, the museum does workshops for scouts. Cub scouts, boy scouts and girl scouts can come and the museum will help them earn different things for their different groups. We discovered an elevator around the corner, and took that upstairs. We found the museum and once inside we asked them about their scout programs. They gave us some packets to look at for the different scouts awards, but they stop the workshops at 2:30 and we had got there at 2:25. 🙁 So we’ll have to come back next month to do the scout thing, but we still took the kids around to look at all the art.
I really liked this picture of space:
Dinah really wanted to have her picture taken with the picture of horses.
I think the kids really enjoyed looking at the various forms of art. And getting to Gymboree and finding out that the sale I was interested in was over, the fact that we found this museum today, kept the trip to the mall today from being a complete waste of time. 🙂