Jolly Days 2012 at the Children's Museum

On Sam's birthday we joined my mom, sister, niece, and nephew at the Indianapolis Children's Museum.  They were having their jolly days so we got to go check out the holiday exhibit.  I must say, the year pass we bought to the Children's Museum was one of the best things we spent our money on.  It is so nice to just go for an hour or two whenever we can make it and see one or two things and then leave.  It is just so expensive otherwise that you feel you have to stay most of the day. 

At the end of the trip we did get to see Santa.  I had to post this picture because Ally was terrified!  In fact.. we might have caused her to have a complex about all beards.  She sees one and she breaks out crying now.

We didn't get to the museum until about 2 hours until it closed, which is a nice time to arrive.  Parking spots were open right up front and it wasn't crowded at all.  We hit our favorite spots quickly before going to the Jolly Days exhibit.  So we made it to the dinosaurs and trains right off the bat.

 

Sam digging for dinosaur bones.

Looking for trains:

 Then off to jolly days.  Inside this exhibit it had a place to do a snowball fight, a castle to climb on, a place for sock ice skating.  There was a huge Mrs. Claus play kitchen that Sam and Ally loved.

And they had Santa Claus.  Because we were there so late in the day there was almost no one in line.  A friend went earlier in the day and said the line was like an hour wait.  We were through in about 8 minutes.  Santa Claus was great.  Sam had a great time.  Ally... not so much!

To finish the trip off we let Sam ride down a huge slide and ended up at the food court to let him pick out a birthday cookie.  It is typically the staircase but for Jolly Days they turn it into a slide.  He loved it and wanted to go down again, but the line for the slide was at least 15 minutes so once was enough!  All in all it was another great trip to the museum and I think Sam had a good time going on his birthday.