Yes... I know. For anyone who read my review of the Hamilton Children`s museum yesterday... we did two museums two days in a row... crazy, right? I carpooled to the ROM with a good friend of mine and her daughter, and I can`t speak for her, but I`m pretty sure the car ride there and back was the best part of the day, for us! :) The museum was not bad. The kids had a pretty good time while we were there, but I don`t think we`ll be going back, until a school trip or Ryan is old enough and asks to go. The dinosaurs were pretty cool to see, but Ryan is not really into dinosaurs too much so he didn`t get as excited to see them as he was to see felt letters at the Hamilton Museum yesterday! He said as we were walking by the dinosaur exhibit today `This is a CRAZY museum`. I`m not quite sure if that is a good thing or a bad.
Our time was spent on the second level of the museum, in discovery zone, the bat cave, and the dinosaur exhibit. We spent about 3 or 3.5 hours there minus lunch. I found it hard to navigate through the museum. In order to get to the discovery zone you have to walk through multiple different exhibits. And there are multiple elevators in the ROM, so it got confusing. And when I asked where the best place to eat lunch was I was told the cafetaria on B1. We were absolutely starving. We went down to B1 but the only thing there was a brown bag lunch area. I was expecting a cafeteria, but, as we all brought our lunch, a basic table where we could eat our lunch worked out okay anyway. I had to laugh at one point because one of our moms was chasing her toddler through the lunch room exasperated, one of our moms had her lunch disrupted by having to take her preschooler to the washroom, Ryan was laying on the bench not eating a thing, and the last mom was also stressed with a daughter who would not eat (without a lot of coaching). Ryan`s favourite part of the museum was probably the bat cave. He wanted to go through it again, and again. He also found a collection of 24 bottles with letters and numbers on them with various scents that he enjoyed smelling and organizing. There was a puzzle he liked, a magnifying glass he played with, and wandering around especially over ramps and bridges. All of the kids loved the dinosaur dig with sand, paint brushes, and goggles.
Traffic was bad getting back home so we didn`t get home until 5:30pm. But I didn`t mind the traffic with good company in the car with me. I made the most delicious dinner today that is guilt free and fairly healthy! The salmon I made was not even pre-seasoned like I usually buy. It was plain salmon that I seasoned myself and though I made it from a recipe it was altered quite a bit. It turned out even tastier than the pre-seasoned ones I buy! For anyone that knows me, this is amazing as I have never enjoyed cooking especially from scratch! Though I still don`t thoroughly enjoy cooking, it is growing on me as I get better at it, and I am enjoying the meals that I`ve created. With the salmon (which is very low on calories, esp for dinner), I made brussel sprouts which also turned out amazing (I put them in a casserole dish with 1 tbsp melted butter, 2 tbsp brown sugar, some lemon juice, a bit of water, and some garlic seasoning - not from a recipe). And some mini potatoes which I baked with some spices and green onion.
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