Roanoke and cake

After another great Friday night at the Monkey House with some amazing live music, on Saturday, I went with Steve and Eva into Roanoke to visit a few of the museums. We started off with the Taubman art gallery which is frankly just odd. I have been there once before and can't say I enjoyed it any more this time. The exhibits are odd. I decided not to take photos of the main exhibit. They were really creepy (with human heads on animals, blood, etc) and really not suitable for a 4 yr old!

Weird morphed redoes climbing on other teddies

The nicest thing there.

They did have a children's play area which was ok.

Being a butterfly

Making noise

Putting on a show.

 We didn't spend very long in the Taubman. Most of it was really not good for little eyes and pretty boring to be honest. After lunch at a Lebanese restaurant (the best thing about Roanoke is the wider variety of restaurants than in Blacksburg), we went to the Science museum in the square. It was way too expensive for what you got. It seemed aimed at too old an audience inside compared to the advertisements. We were not very impressed.

Checking out minerals

turbulence

 One of the best things was a planetarium globe. It displayed lots of different things, even the WMAP results. But it didn't explain any of them! Fail.

planetarium

There was also a sensory area where you could dig for fossils. Eva spent some time there, mainly throwing the rubber. Then we sat in the reading area going through books while Steve tried (and failed) to take a nap.

Digging for fossils

 After the museums and an ice-cream we headed back to Blacksburg. They dropped me off home where I took a well deserved nap! Children are lots of fun but exhausting. They came over to mine later that evening for dinner and Eva and I baked a blue Frozen cake. Eva was great mixing everything together. And we decorated it with sparkly icing! It was very pretty and blue and tasty.

Our frozen cake!

She was happy with the cake. Honest!

We were going to watch Frozen to go with our Frozen cake. But Eva changed her mind and we watched Despicable Me 2 instead. A fun evening to end a great day!
Today I spent the day working, so not nearly as much fun but necessary. :-(