Discovery Museum

After years of Tom -- I mean, Will -- begging to go the San Jose Discovery Museum, we finally plucked up enough courage to make the 17 minute trip. And we quickly discovered that the very best feature of the museum was actually outside:


Will's immediate comment upon seeing the magnificent super-Rubber Ducky: "I want hold it." In fact, everything was pretty much downhill from there for Will. After we entered, and after we had left, all we could get from him was "Where Ducky go?" But, once we got into the museum (and resisted the almost frantic attempts of the museum staff to sell us a year-long membership), Will was able to satisfy one of his most-cherished dreams: driving a fire truck!


This was eventually followed by his piloting an old-school green delivery truck, which, while not as awesome as a fire truck, is better than the pink stroller which his father keeps hiding from him in the courtyard.


There was also a magnificent arrangement of plastic balls, some floating mysteriously in the air (which also attracted herds of children that were not intent on sharing):



But, more importantly, there was a whole bunch of them in the "waterworks," where Will could put them in little whirlpools or shoot them into a big tank of water, and splash to his heart's content.



Also receiving honorable mention was the bubble setup and the butterflies. Although, with the bubbles, Will seemed to enjoy playing with the soap the most.



GiaGia and PaPou will also be proud to hear that Will is following in their EMS footsteps and was pretty excited about the ambulance (actually, as Will informed us, it's pronounced "ambliance").



Will also found that he has a talent as budding artist.


Nice to see that he's found an outlet to express his creativity; his latest creations will shortly be on private auction for his relatives (it's not child labor, seriously).