The Brookston Family Blog
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The other day Alice was playing with Porter’s Curious George rocketship.

Alice and the rocketship.

Which she was very excited to be playing with, I guess because Porter wasn’t trying to take it from her for a change.

Cue the Benny Hill music, here’s the kids eating at the table.

“Ummmm, beans!”

“These are yummy, I can fit the whole fork in my mouth!”

“Yeah, yeah. Fork, chicken, ketchup. Been there, done that. So what?”

“Table? I don’t need no stinkin’ table!“

Jackson Pollock is one of those modern artists that when people see his work they say “I could do that.” Well, here’s your chance. The Jackson Pollock Art Generator by Miltos Manetas lets you drip paint on your own canvas just like Pollock would have done.

This is my effort, my own Pollock-esque painting.

Also at the Carson City Kids’ Museum was what can best be described as a life-sized pachinko machine. It was the hit of the day for Porter, and he spent the last half-hour we were there on it.

Porter pulling levers and turning dials on the giant pachinko machine.

Then he’d stand back and watch the balls fall where they might.

After we visited the Railroad Museum in Carson City when we in Lake Tahoe over Memorial weekend, we went to the Carson City Childre’s Museum. We had picked up a local alternative paper which listed it as being just down the road from the railroad. And it was included with our Bay Area Discovery museum membership, so it was free for us to go there. It wasn’t quite as grand as the Marin one, but the kids had fun anyway.

Alice playing with blocks.

Porter levitating a ball on the cannon.