Comments updated by Andy.
We tried to make it to the kid’s museum in Graz “Frida and Fred.”
Graz is pretty and colorful:
We found nice parking on the other side of the park, and decided to walk. What we did not know was, that almost the entire park was a playground. Leilani had to stop and play with everything (Andy helped).
I think she was playing Titanic…
And there’s lots more you can’t see here. Eventually, we got tired of taking pictures, so the parents sat down and had coffee from a kiosk in the park (how civilized) and more birthday chocolate.
After 2 hours on the playground, we told her she could either play another 30 minutes and then walk around the city or go to the kid’s museum for 2 hours. Life is all about “making” choices. She chose the kids museum. But along the way, we found some more fun things:
The river Mur, right next to the park
We found some giant eggs that looked like modern art, but Leilani immediately climbed on them and started jumping around. I did not photoshop this one (and she landed on her feet)
That’s the slightly modified Coat of Arms of the city of Graz, spray painted on the “playground.”
What to do with the giant eggs? Jump of course
We finally made it to the museum.
That was the entrance. No shoes allowed in the museum. They did have stairs for he adults, but I declined and took the kids route :-)
We forgot to take pictures for the greater part, but there was an exhibition on human bodies that Leilani liked a lot.
Among the highlights a plastic brain to take apart (complicated enough the high-school student in charge could not put it back together), a digestive system (easy enough that Leilani could name and place all the parts), and a skeleton (did not come apart, fortunately), all life-sized, an exercise bike for a stress test that was small enough for Leilani (and she was rated very high endurance), and compressed air mail from room to room… and soap on a rope in the washroom that really impressed Leilani.
Andy had to leave the museum to feed the parking meter. Along the way he took pictures of the cool little European cars painted in nice colors. Sonja played with photoshop:
