Chiminike

There were 3 things that I had in mind that I wanted to do while in Tegucigalpa.

The first was more of a need than a want.... take care of immigration paperwork.

The second was to go to a park for the kids.

The third was to go fabric shopping (Abuela is going to teach me some sewing stuff!!)

We took care of the immigration stuff on our first two days there.

On another on of our days we decided to go to Chiminike.  It is a children's educational play museum.  

The kids had TONS of fun.  We were there for 2 1/2 hours and they did not want to leave.

At first Maria was a little afraid of the metal frogs on the benches...

but slowly she crept closer...  At the end she still wasn't completely comfortable, but she did think they were super cool.  When I was uploading the pictures she kept saying "Ria, Stavo, and Frog!!"

The first area we went into was geared towards younger children. 

A little later Cooper even got on one of these little bikes and was practically running (alone!).

There's Abuela holding Cooper.... a rare picture of her.

Another of the rooms was mini-city.  It had a little construction area, a bank, a grocery store, a radio station, and television station.

We could hear each other talking so we sang songs.

This was the body room.  Maria is climbing thru a blood vessel.

Climbing up.

and going down the slide.... it was a little on the fast side.

The biggest game of operation I've ever seen.

The weather room.  Cloud raining on the mountain which filtered down to the river.

Where Maria and Luis Gustavo went fishing.

This was the Honduran Cultural room....This was the only picture that we got of them with masks on at the same time....

We stopped outside in the courtyard for a little snack.

Here is the view from one of the windows.

At the end we went back to the room we started out in to wait for our taxi. They had a whole bunch of costumes for the kids to dress up in (plus a stage for acting) and Maria found this Tigger costume. She loves everything Winnie the Pooh, so she had to put it on.... getting it off when the taxi got there was real fun.

We had a great time.  And I think every time we go back to Tegucigalpa we'll have to stop by Chiminike for a few hours.