Museum Visit

Recently my dad and I took the children to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Ma, to see some of the exhibits.  I tried to prep them for driving through Salem and how it is a historical town in Massachusetts, in term of settlement and history.
Vivian: "So the buildings and houses are old?"
Me: "Yes."
Vivian: "Like from 1996?"
Me: "A little older than that.  Like around when the Pilgrims came here.  A long, long time ago."
Vivian: "Oh.  Like 1992."
Me: "Before that.  Like 1692." (turns out it was before that). "Before there were cars, and electricity, and phones."
Vivian: "They had candles."
Me:  "That's right."

There were some great exhibits at the museum, one interactive electronic exhibit that we all enjoyed, XYZT. 

 Ironically one of the things that was in one of the rooms was a phone to listen to the screen that described the artist's work.  Both Sam and Vivian picked it up and said, "what's this?" and then couldn't figure out how to hang it up.  However, they were all comfortable in the darkened rooms with the interactive screens.

Lanie's favorite exhibit was in the Playtime area, and was essentially two robo vacuum cleaner type machines that competed for space.  She kept wanting to return to it.  It's also one of her favorite things at home too.  Luckily she was free so we didn't actually pay to have her watch them.

When she got home she "relaxed" on the armchair and watched our robo vac.