Nathaniel Day 7 - Kenosha Fun

You can read about the idea behind Nathaniel Day and the activities of previous months here, here, here, here, and here.

We decided on the activities for this Nathaniel Day the day before (Friday). We had a few ideas, but hadn't decided on one for sure. On a whim I decided to check out events in Kenosha because it's fairly close and we never go there. It turned out that Saturday was going to be Streetcar Day. Perfect. Abby will love it! And there was a big farmer's market going on and three free museums to go to, one of which was a dinosaur museum. It seemed there would be plenty to do so we decided to go for it. We called up Grandma and Grandpa to tell them our plans and invite them along.

We got to Kenosha around lunchtime, found a place to park across the street from the streetcars, and went inside the building to check out what they had set up there. Abby had fun looking at the LEGO model with running streetcars while we bought day passes to ride the streetcars as much as we wanted.


We waited for a streetcar and took it over to meet Grandma and Grandpa at the farmer's market. We found some food to eat for lunch and ate it beside a fountain outside of one of the museums.

After lunch we went in the museum for a while with Grandma and Grandpa. We played with dinosaurs and ate pretend food and looked at rocks and cartoons and clocks. It was a pretty fun little museum.



















After the museum Grandma and Grandpa left to go home and we waited to take the streetcar to the dinosaur museum.

The dinosaur museum was tiny, but Abby had fun. We looked at all the fossils and then went downstairs where they had a dinosaur dig set up. We stayed there until they closed for the day. Then it was back on the streetcar back to our car.

Abby's favorite dinosaur (the little one right behind her)

Posing with the dinosaur outside the museum.
Puppy needed to be in the picture too.

 We ended the day with a stop at the transportation center where all the streetcars were housed and then another loop around the town on the streetcar before setting off to find some dinner. For some reason Abby really wanted to go into a particular pizza place, but then wanted macaroni and cheese, which they didn't have. She settled for ravioli. We had pizza. It was delicious.

All the streetcars in the shed for the night.

One of the three streetcars we rode.

Ready for her last ride of the day.

It was a fun day and something that we probably would have never found without looking for different things to do for Nathaniel Day. Abby would have just ridden the streetcars around in circles for the whole day, but I'm glad that we did some other things too. We are definitely finding new places to go and things to do because of him.