One good thing about having grandchildren is that you get to go to places that people might look at you weird if you didn’t have a kid in tow. Today it was the Strong Museum to see the Wizard of Oz display. Let me first explain that my whole family are “Ozzies.”  We love the movie and go around quoting the lines.  At the museum we expected to see some of the props or costumes from the movie, but there was none of that. Instead the whole room was filled with lots of interactive displays geared to the family munchkins.

 One whole wall here was a castle that kids could rock climb or rope climb. That seemed really popular with the kids.

This tree was one of my favorite displays. You could turn wheels from behind to change the eyes and mouth.

And the pedals on Miss Gulch’s bike made the tornado spin. 

The museum also had a special display of Whimsical Art, and the artists were on hand to meet and greet. My only complaint with that was that there were only one or two pieces by each artist and they were all scattered around. I would have liked to have seen more.

So what did grandson Evan think of the whole afternoon?

Oh, well, what does he know?