Our day trip.

OK.  I have to tell you about our trip on Wednesday.  I'm going to be honest and say I was going just because I wanted to spend time with our friends, the Estels.  Turns out, it was a great trip. 

We headed up to Wheeling to the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum.  Their website was a little dullsville, so I was worried the kids wouldn't do well just looking at displays of toys.  I was wrong.  Every other room had a hands on toy to play with.  Super fun!  Ron & I had fun looking at all the toys we used to have as kids - my green machine and Donnie & Marie dolls, Ronnie's army men and big wheel - super fun.



Slat car races

Wheeling model company that also works as a defense contractor.

Kinects roller coaster room - amazing!

Amazing details - all out of kinects.

The Rockenboch construction playset was a hit.









From the toy museum, we headed west across to Belaire, OH to see the "Toy & Plastic Brick Museum".  This place is the largest private collection of Lego's.  It was amazing the things that were built out of Legos. 

Ronnie & his good friend Spidey.

The only thing this guy likes more than Legos is Star Wars. 



The Mona Lisa - from Legos

I'm disappointed that I didn't take my Nikon that day.  I didn't want to lug it around so I took Ronnie's camera.  A lot of my pics didn't turn out well - including a life size Darth Vader made entirely from Legos.  This is just a small sample of what we saw there.  The museum is in an old school.  Almost every room had a massive display in it.  The only negative would be that it's a look, don't touch kind of place.  They do have a hands on room where kids can go and build, but there was a birthday party later that day and we weren't allowed to play. 

Of course, no trip to the Wheeling area would be complete (at least for Ronnie) without a stop at hunting & fishing Mecca - aka Cabela's.  Ronnie & Kevin had their fun time while Tracy & I kept the boys entertained in the shooting gallery.

A great day trip!