Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Cheese Balls for the CheeseHeads


Okay, does anybody remember Planters Cheese Balls? Oh my goodness what a guilty pleasure those were to me as a kid, so imagine our surprise when we happen across some at the Costco in Seoul...but it's a keg size (just used as a comparison, not from experience!!) bucket of them and they are $10. So Chris being the good, healthy father that he is keeps telling us No, but I want my kids to taste some of the goodness that is a Cheese Ball. So we found these at the Ball Museum right as you exit for $1 (1000 won), what a great place!! Cool ball thingys and CHEESE BALLS to boot!! It's heaven in a bag!!

Magnetic Kinetic




THEN..... I know you're probably bored to death about now but hang on we're almost done, this was a whole wall with magnetic little pieces that you could build your own track on the wall and see where it went!! And the last picture is a place where you could put all the wooden pieces (imagine those big wooden blocks you used to build with) and make once again your own masterpiece of motion!! So overall a very cool place to visit!! Definitely pricey, but I think worth it for all the fun and learning that the kids receive there!!

Steps With No Feet!!

Here is one of the DIY with steps this time...I didn't want to post it because of my silly dialog in the back...it didn't get the point across but I was just trying to especially make this video for my mom because she's been a teacher all her life and so she's always teaching the kids stuff about cause and effect..."If I put the ball in the hole, where does it go??" And so I was just saying that Kyle was learning to watch where the ball went!! So please disregard my jibber-jabber!!

The Mountainous Terrain

Then there was this entire other room with 20 or so of these "DIY" wooden tracks and this one was one of our favorites...but there were so many different tracks and angles that the balls took...from winding around so gracefully to steps that they could travel down.

Music in Motion

Lots of videos I know, but we all know how I feel about videos as opposed to just pictures...SO much better!! Anyway, this one was one of my favorites because of course it involved music, and though some of the sounds are kinda soft, you can definitely hear the ball running over the cow bells, and then the xylophone....Such creativity I tell you!!

The Tilty Table

Well with all the precision of a moving foozeball table Destinee and Chris try and get the ball through the little steeple at the end, but not without first hitting the bell in between!! Such skills!! ;)

Keep Those Balls Coming!!

Well I'm off to playgroup now but wanted to do a little more updating this morning, but definitely more BALLS to come soon...the rolling kind and the hair kind!! Stay tuned!! ;)