There is a large children’s museum in Olympia WA that I had heard great things about. We’ve had a rainy June so one Saturday we decided to drive up and spend the night in Olympia.

The children’s museum was huge! Two floors and a large outdoor area. The kids explored and didn’t get lost once. Sloane’s favorite room was the pet hospital with many stuffed animals. I think Soren’s favorite was the vacuum tube wall. There is a hole to put scarfs and large pom-poms in. Then they get sucked around a maze of tubes and come flying out from exits.

We stayed in a hotel for the night. It was disappointing because they listed an indoor pool on the site, but they did not have an indoor pool. The exciting thing was they had Disney Junior! We had a take out dinner in the room and let the kids jump from bed to bed. Soren perfected his Spider-Man roll.

On Sunday morning after some breakfast sandwiches at a cute coffee shop, we walked around the capitol building. It was quiet and lovely. We explored the outside of buildings, monuments, and gardens. Sloane did slid off a tree branch while I was trying to get a cute picture of her. It was her 7th injury of the trip- 3 scratches from a fall running at the rest stop, walking into a parking meter, bashing her butt on the armrest of her booster seat, and hitting her nose on the back of the car.