Todd was in LA last week for business and took the red eye home on Thursday night to get back to our house before 8:00 AM on Friday morning. Since flying overnight counted as his work day, he was able to spend the day with us and we decided to head up an hour north of us to Mansfield. We spent a couple hours at the Little Buckeye Children's Museum and then stopped for lunch at the Buckeye Express Diner.
The Little Buckeye Children's Museum was small, which is what I expected, but super cute and fun and they packed a lot into such a small building. There were 28 different exhibits like a grocery store, construction site, hair salon, doctor's office, school, mechanic shop, etc. that the kids could explore and play around in. We probably could've stayed longer than 2 hours but our parking meter was going to expire and the girls were getting hungry. We drove about 15 min south on our way back to Columbus to stop for lunch at the Buckeye Express Diner. Any time we drive up to see Todd's family, I always notice this train car sitting up on a hill off of an exit on 71. I looked it up once and found out that it was actually a restaurant in the train car and I've been wanting to stop for years now to check it out. I knew Lucy would think it was pretty cool to eat in a train car so I thought it'd be a fun place to stop for lunch.
Outside the museum
The "baby doc" exhibit
Lucy was checking a baby's heart
Hello, Cece!
Beauty Salon exhibit
Lucy straightening hair
Vet clinic exhibit
View down the hallway of the water table area on the left and more exhibits, like the construction area, on the right
Lucy dressed up like a construction worker
Todd & Lucy performing on the stage in the theater exhibit
Watching Todd on the stage while "eating" our popcorn
Grocery shopping
Girl after my heart...she made sure she got some Cool Whip
Working the check out
Pretending to be a bank teller
Playing at the water table area
Another view of some of the exhibits
Lucy sitting in the dentist chair
Checking out her teeth
Playing in the school
Cece & Todd
They even had a McDonald's exhibit
Lucy getting my order ready
Train exhibit
Buckeye Express Diner
She was really excited to look out the train window
Waiting for our lunch
View of the train car
Cece dined on a mum mum...
and some pears
Lunch is served
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