The best laid plans…are the ones most likely to go wrong.
Or something like that.
I think Murphy stinks. And his whole law should be thrown out the window. A SECOND STORY window, at that.
Okay, let me explain. Today being Labor Day and all, we decided to do some family bonding. A little road trip to a local destination that would empty our wallets and fill our memory card. So we got up early, packed a picnic lunch and headed off for a 90-minute drive to Ft. Worth to the (as Trey has named it): Star Wars Science Museum of History. Parent translation: The Star Wars Exhibit at the Ft. Worth Museum of Science and History. We made good time, found a decent parking space, and were being serenaded to Star Wars music as we entered the building, only to see the following information pasted before our eyes: “The next available entrance to the Star Wars exhibit is 5:00 P.M.” Problem was, it was 11:00A.M. And then we saw the queue to buy tickets. It would likely have been 5:00 P.M. before we would have been able to purchase them. Needless to say, we decided then and there that this exhibit would have to travel on to Chicago without us gracing its Force-filled displays.
Trey was devastated. He was so disappointed. Of all of us, he was by far the most excited about seeing the exhibit. Based on the endless stream of chatter we had endured on the way there, he had great expectations about what he would see. Those visions were crushed as we stood there, trying our best to explain to him why we weren’t willing to hang around for 6 hours in a museum where there was only about 3 hours of material to view (and that’s pushing it).
We gave the kids a choice: we could stay and look at the other exhibits, or go to the Ft. Worth Zoo or Botanical Gardens. Amazingly enough, they chose to stay at the museum. We bought our tickets, which include entrance to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. We started there, and enjoyed about an hour of scientific exploration and play in their Exploratorium (guess they didn’t have as much Cowgirl memorabilia as they thought they did). We saw all kinds of really cool optical illusions and had fun playing with our brains in new and different ways. Then we took a break for a picnic lunch, and then it was off to the Science Museum of History for more scientific fun. We looked at one exhibit and then found ourselves forced to face our destiny, being lured to the “dark side” of the hands-on science area. We spent another hour in there, building and creating to our heart’s content. Trey found some neat wood planks that he used to build a tower taller than him! As he later told us, “Man, I was so totally focused that I didn’t even think about missing the Star Wars exhibit!” You gotta love that kid. Then we headed outside for a short time where the kids dug up dinosaur bones and managed to get sand into every orifice and nook and cranny of their person and clothing before it was time to pack up and head home.
It certainly wasn’t the day we expected, or even the day we had hoped for. Our destiny was thwarted before we could even begin. But it was a great day nonetheless, and we even learned a bonus tidbit for next year: On Labor Day, there are NO lines at 6 Flags!! Woo hoo! Next year, we be FLAGGIN’!
Crisana works on her tower with a little help from Mom.
Trey begins construction of his “masterpiece.” Currently, he is standing on the floor to build.
Trey’s tower has grown enough that he can no longer reach the top while standing on the floor. So now, he’s kneeling on the stool.
Trey’s tower has grown! Now, he has to stand on the stool to be able to reach the top.
The tower continues to grow. The boy behind Trey kept calling their creations “The Twin Towers”. He and Trey had a blast building their towers together!
Trey’s tower is now so tall that he has to stand on the TABLE!! We weren’t sure how much farther he could go, but he kept right on going…
Now it’s almost as tall as he is! The top was really beginning to sway and he had attracted a rather large audience at this point.
Now, it’s taller than he is! At this point, he could no longer see the top and decided he didn’t want to see his creation fall, so he stopped building. Just for the record, the tower at this point is approximately 55″ tall!
That’s too bad you couldn’t get into see the exhibit you wanted, but it sounds like you guys made the most of it and had fun anyway. I guess we missed out on all the fun! Who goes to a museum at 5pm anyway on a school night anyway? Silly museum!
Well according to Murphy’s law.. an attempt to throw it out the window, would most likely fail… perhaps causing something else catastrophic to happen… Like maybe the law would hit the sill and end up bumping the whole window out of the wall, causing it to crash into the ground, and shatter. The broken glass would probably split the hose, causing water to flood into the ground. The sodden ground would then cause the foundation to sag, and the whole wall might collapse.
So just be careful in disposing of Murphy.
(FYI: Murphy had a close relationship with a man nambed Goldberg. )
The sad thing is…Murphy was an optimist. ;-b