Please Touch

Last week our friends invited us to go with them to the Please Touch Museum (#13.)  I've wanted to take Nathan for a while but I've been concerned it might be a little much for him.  I've heard it can get pretty loud and overwhelming.  I didn't want to have to pay for a ticket only to have Nathan go into sensory overload right after we get there.  I was so glad that our friends invited us to go and get us in with their pass.

For the first hour, Nathan loved it.  There were cars, space ships, trains, and motorcycles.  What more could any little boy want?  There was so much to play with and Nathan loved exploring.  Jake liked to show Nathan around to all of his favorite things and Nathan liked having a buddy.

But after that first hour, poor Nathan got so overwhelmed.  There was several school field trips that day and it was loud and crowded.  He was playing in the grocery store and there was so many kids around him that Nathan bolted out of there screaming.  He ran into a less crowded room and when I got to him he said, "I'm sad.  Big tears." I had looked online before going and they said that they had a quiet room set up everyday for kids to go to calm down.  So I asked a staff member and they didn't have one set up yet.  A manager finally had us go to a conference room. Weird.  Once Nathan calmed down Evelyn wanted to eat, but refused to.  So we called it a day.

I'm glad we gave it a try and I think on a less crowded day Nathan would have loved to see the rest of the museum.  It was lots of fun to see our friends and have Nathan and Jake play together!  We'll miss them once we're both done with dental school!