Museo de los Niños

In Honolulu one of Quinn and Jack's favorite Saturday things to do is take a trip to the Children's Discovery Museum, where there are dress-up costumes, ship signal flags and the Aloha Airlines airplane mock-up. For that reason we knew that Museo de los Niños would be a winner when we read about it in our guidebooks. It's located in Abasto Mall, about a 40 minute walk from our apartment (though leading the way, I managed to turn that into about an hour-and-a-half). Shrewdly located to the rear of the top-floor food court, Museo de los Niños has three levels that engage the kids in every experience, from piloting & loading a freight tanker,

to driving an eighteen-wheeler cab,

to flying a fighter jet,



to milking a cow.

And not so surprisingly the kids can even get behind the counter at a McDonalds mock-up and become young employees-in-training (thankfully, neither Quinn nor Jack expressed any interest in handing out fake Big Macs, though I have to admit that might have been because Jack wasn't able to see over the counter and because I commented to Quinn how smart McDonalds is in getting kids hooked early on their branding…).

At one point we all split up, so Quinn and I missed the fútbol cancha, where although Jack was too shy to join the older boys in the somewhat unsupervised game, he practiced his "gol!" call at the public address announcers' table.

Something tells me we will be returning to Abasto Mall on another fin de semana!