At Marbles Museum

In Raleigh there is a children's museum called Marbles...it is F-U-N! There is this area with all these green balls and buckets to collect them in. You can take your bucket up a set of stairs dump them in a container which then vaccuums the balls out and up and then down this wire track that hangs from the ceiling. The balls wind up inside a giant pink pig hanging from the ceiling and when a certain amount of balls get in the pig then it's belly door swings open and dumps all the balls on the floor (in the pic above). It's rad.

They have a water play section where there are these two huge bowls of water with water toys. My favorite part was the big waterproof apron that the kids wear to protect themselves from getting wet.

There is also an automobile section: fire engine, ambulance, bus, boat, sportscar.

There are so many other parts of the museum that I'm failing to mention (SO MANY). Here he is playing "ice" hockey in the sports section of the museum:


hockey from erin kawamata on Vimeo.