This weekend the family went to TWO Columbus'! First we checked out the Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival. They have a ton of light up creatures for young people to take photos of themselves with for their social media profiles. Me, an old sack of crap, posts those pictures on his geocities style website. The next day we journeyed out to Columbus Indiana and enjoyed the Kids Commons Children Museum and Zaharakos an old timey ice cream parlour and soda fountain place that's been in operation for over 125 years!
The Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival was beautiful but hard to photograph with my phone at least. While plenty of photos were taken not all of them are worth looking at so I will just post the best of the lot.
First thing my daughter wanted to see were these unicorns.
A ferocious dragon.
The infamous Cheese Dougal spotted with a noodle dragon.
This Chinese lady was all gnarled and twisted up.
These flamingos were up partying all night. I figured they'd be asleep at night.
My Son in the got into the zone, the dolphin zone.
My son being eaten by whales.
My Son and a wingaling dragon.
A Mighty griffin.
A cool mantis lantern.
Both of my kids and a unicorn.
My girlie with some wings.
My boy with wings.
Here are some koifish that were hiding under the dock.
They turned the lights off as I was taking this picture. Bummer.
The entrance to the lantern festival.
You can kind of see me and my son on the Carousel the kids are on either side of me.
There was a historical marker for the carousel which I may read someday. I take pictures of these signs all the time and eventually get around to reading them.
The next day we went to Columbus Indiana to check out a kids museum with a giant toilet slide and a really cool old time soda parlour across the street. The soda parlor place was like a museum dedicated to soda fountains and was really awesome. If it was closer to home I'd be going there all the time honestly. Let's check out some photos of our second Columbus of the Two Columbus weekend.
Before we got to the actual kids museum we found this indoor park that was in what used to be a mall.
The camping zone.
The spot with the big toilet slide had all sorts of cool features in a big three story house. There was a thermal camera in the kitchen zone where you could see the oven heating up of the fridge cooling down.
There were TONS of secret passage ways and crawl spaces for the kids to explore. If I wasn't adult sized I would have been sneaking around in there too.
This is how my daughter really feels.
It took a while for my son to get brave enough to hop in and ride the slide but my girlie hopped right in.
MY son enjoyed the little attic zone. There were some cool access tunnels, some tubes you could use to talk to others in other parts of the house and some secret windows to spy on the people on the first floor.
In another area there was another outdoor themed zone. This was a neat little net tunnel for them to crawl through.
There were little annimals all over the place like this flying squirrel.
Playing dead champion 25 years running.
There were all sorts of creature carcasses on display.
Check out these grody bugs.
Big ol linkin logs.
We made it back to the house with the toilet slide and my kids found this secret area with a painting that had the eyes cut out to spy on people. Very spooky. This picture feels like those scary 1970s halloween costumes.
This looked like the best secret area in the house. It goes from the first floor up to the attic.
I'm not sure who is spying on me through that little circular window in the ceiling.
There were cameras and displays all throughout the house. My BB was worried I wasn't aware and would start scratchin the ol bean bag, a valid concern tbh. But here you can see my son the infamous Cheese Dougal sneaking around under the giant toilet. Those tubes under the TVs can be used to talk to the kids in other areas of the house. There's also a man presumably from Columbus Indiana.
There was a big ol light bright up in that house too.
There was also a big bubble zone. If you look close you can see the big bubble collapsing.
After the kids were wore out running around the kids museum place we went down the street to Zaharkos Ice Cream Parlour and Museum.
. This place was awesome.
There were tons of soda fountains here with placards talking about how cool and old they are and form whence they came. It was really neat.
Here is another one.
I got this awesome peanut butter ice cream brownie sundae. It really was pretty amazing and I honestly want to go back and get one.
I also ordered an orangeade straight out of one of those 100+ year old soda fountains but this guy right here kept drinking it. So I guess I have to go back and order a few more of those bad boys.
They had maps and pins so you could let them know where you were visiting from. Man there were a lot of pins from all over the world. I didn't know Columbus Indiana was such a destination, honestly I had never heard of it until my BB told me that's where we were headed.
My girlies first float. She loved it and is now sold on rootbeer floats.
We had a great time on our Two Columbus weekend.
The building was gorgeous and had so many fine details but I didn't take very many great photos. But marvel at these kiddos and some of the cool building.
For only a quarter you can make this ancient marvel of engineering play you a song. It's awesome.
Then we stopped at Greeks Pizza and it was alright. LMAO. I probably wouldn't go out of my way to stop there again. It's by no means a Pizza King that I will go out of my way to get to Richmond to visit.
Oh before dinner we stopped at a park and it had this tunnel with foliage on it. It was kind of neat.
We ended up at that park because we wanted to see this cool covered bridge and now you get to see it too.
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