Today at the Great Lakes Children's museum they had a special appearance by Curious George. It started at 1pm. In the past when they've had special events at 1pm friends have told me that it gets busier as the afternoon goes on and nap times wind down so we thought we'd get there right away.
Our first clue to turn around and run, run away should have been that it took us 10 minutes to find a place to park and that spot was two buildings down and behind a dentist office.
The second clue would have been the line out the door.
Being a saturday, there were a lot of Dads along and just about all of them (Ben included) looked like they were seconds away from bolting for the door. Alex, amazingly enough, was not even phased by the crowds and chaos. He was ready to play. He caught a glimpse of George but was not interested in standing in the huge line for a picture with him so we just played for a while.
After we'd been there just over an hour the line for George was moving a lot quicker and there seemed to be a lull in the crowd and once Alex got a good look at him he really, really wanted to be able to go say "hi!" to him.
I didn't get the best facial expressions on camera unfortunately. He was really excited and got a little shy once he got right up there and was just waving and talking quietly to George, at one point if Ben would have handed him over I think Alex would have gone right over to George! When we were leaving the museum Alex had to go back and wave good-bye to him before we left.
He also got a free Curious George book (the original Curious George) and an activity book. We read the story book before bed and right before he went to sleep he said "Hey Mommy?" Yes. "Curious George is really big" :) I had been waiting all day for him to say something about that, because in the movie and all the books he is a little monkey and the character at the museum was the size of a small adult.
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