Discovery Museum: Chattanooga

A few months ago, Paul and I gave Addie a new DVD called Underwater Adventures.

It was filmed at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California and is truly fascinating. There are penguins and polar bears and big fish and little fish. Our little girl clearly likes fish!

Well that gave us an idea. We wanted to take a little trip, just the 3 of us, before I couldn't travel and before the twins were born. We wanted to take an Addie trip, and what better a place to go than an aquarium.

We are closest to the Atlanta Aquarium, but we've heard it's 1.) expensive, 2.) huge and somewhat overstimulating, and 3.) very crowded.  So Paul suggested we go to Chattanooga. We found an ultra cheap good hotel on Expedia and set our date. We also found out there was a Discovery Museum there and of course the Chattanooga ChooChoo!

We got up early Saturday morning and headed to Tennessee...this trip already starting out much better than our last visit to Tennessee! We spent the afternoon at the Discovery Museum, ate dinner in a train car at the Chattanoogo ChooChoo Hotel, and spent the next day at the Tennessee Aquarium.

And it was cold. This cold did not touch Montgomery cold. Addie even wore gloves! It was freezing! But we had a blast.

Addie knew we were going on a "twip" to see "big fish." But it made sense to go the Discovery Museum on Saturday for a quick visit. There was a great toddler's section, but a lot of what was there was too old for Addie. It didn't stop her from having a blast though!

She loves to slide:

And play in the fully stocked kitchen:

The car wasn't as much of a hit though...

And we discovered she has a little rhythm too!

She really enjoyed playing with her Daddy.

And she loved "playing" the player piano:

Although interested in coloring, she was way more interested in making sure all the crayons were back in their little tin bucket.

There was a huge playground built above the room, and she loved looking up at the big kids playing.

But the water was her favorite! We finally made her wear a "smock" so she wouldnt completely soak herself before we headed back out into the 20 degree weather!

After a fun time at the museum, we headed to find our hotel. I dont have any pictures of this, but Addie immediately discovered the phone in the room. Funny thing is, she's never seen a phone like that. I had to tell her and show her what it was. But it didn't take long for her to figure it out and she was "talking" away. She loves to play talk on the phone, but the minute someone says something on the other end, she pushes it away!

And the cutest pictures I got were of Addie and Daddy playing right before bath time.

Clearly the ice bucket makes a perfect hat! She was so cute running around with it on her head.

More pictures from the aquarium soon!