Today we met some friends at the Johnson County Museum, a FREE center that showcases the history of Johnson County and also has a fabulous Kidscape children's exhibit. They also offer a 1950's all electric house to tour but the hours are limited and we weren't able to see it this time. The proper thing to do is to go through the whole museum first and get educated on the past but with little ones we don't do things the right way all the time and jumped right over to Kidscape. We were the only ones there at first, which was nice since the kiddos were bouncing off the walls with excitement. What I love about this place is they have rooms set up based on creative play such as a park with a fishing hole and a golf course, a hospital room with a patient to operate on and babies to care for, a town hall, a theater, a library, and a few others fun spots. Picasso hit a hole in one and Princess Tiger Lily caught a fish almost as big as she is. All the girls were giddy when they saw the theater and raced backstage to prepare for the show. My friend and I had the front row seats to an award winning show with beautiful little starlets. Lacking a long attention span at this age they quickly moved on to make bead bracelets on pipe cleaners and color some sheets that were laid out in the parlor. They played and played and finally before we left we decided to walk through the museum. We of course started at the end and therefore ended at the beginning since we like to live on the wild side. My OCD almost kicked in but I stuffed it down and enjoyed the walk back through time. It's a great little jewel if you don't mind a short drive. I would suggest packing a lunch or snack and enjoying the park across the street afterwards. We already planned to jot on over to Old Shawnee Town which was about 10 minutes away, so we said goodbye to our friends and drove to another place set back in another era.
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