One of the perks (if you want to call it that) of living in a college town is that the school district schedules a spring break to coincide with the university's break. Mind you, unless you are a professor at the university or an employee of the school district, all spring break means is that you are going to shell out cash for child care or use up vacation days to stay home with your kids.
If you know anything at all about me, you know that I don't sit at home with the kids all that well, so it should come as no surprise that we loaded up the car and got out of town for a few days.
The idea went something like this... 'let's hit the DaVinci Science Center up in Allentown. It's covered by our Pittsburgh Children's Museum membership (man, are we getting our money's worth out of that thing). We'll spend a night with Grammy, head into the city to deliver all those girl scout cookies Cathy sold at Christmas time on Sunday, go to the Franklin Institute (covered) on Monday, and then drive to Baltimore. Once we get to Baltimore, we can go to Port Discovery Children's Museum (covered) one day and the Maryland Science Center (covered) the other.'
No doubt it was an ambitious plan and we did everything on the list.
We had dinner with a college friend and her family on Tuesday night. And on Wednesday morning, we got a phone call from her husband asking if we'd be interested in using his firm's corporate membership to check out the National Aquarium. Never one to turn down an opportunity to do something new, we jumped at the chance.
The trip was so much fun... and exhausting. And, it looks like I'll have five blog posts to write instead of just four.
Stay tuned...
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