New Year's Eve at the Marbles Kid's Museum

On the 31st of December we went to Marbles Children's Museum in downtown Raleigh.  Since we are members we figured we should go because at noon they had a "Marble Drop" for kids to celebrate New Year's!

Before they started they made a big circle and put bubble wrap for the kids to step on once the clock hit noon!

Then as they announced the 10 second count down and lowered the marbles, they sprayed confetti and then  at zero all the kids went crazy and popped all the bubble wrap!

Long after most kids left the area, Avery kept trying to pop the bubble wrap.  Unfortunately she is so tiny that she couldn't pop them when she stepped on them!

 While we were there we had fun playing in the exhibits.  Avery loved learning about first-responders and even played the part herself!

There was a separate side room with an engineering exhibit, Avery had to go see that to make her daddy proud!

She like making big long PVC pipe routes to drop golf balls down.

And she made an arch to walk through, just like the one in St Louis where her daddy grew up.

And After we left the engineering exhibit we went back to the main part of the museum and of course she loved the mega-sized Thomas the Train layout there:

Avery and mommy tried hula-hooping:

And competed in a huge came of Connect Four

We also switched out our old white and gold fan in the living room and replaced it with a more modern look.  Before

After

Hope everyone had a safe and happy new years!