Our last full day in the United States was another occasion where Mom relaxed at the house, while Dad and daughter went out and did something. In this case, it was our first visit to the Kids Discovery Museum, located on nearby Bainbridge Island. KiDiMu was smaller than the Imagine Children's Museum in Everett that my sister had taken us to the previous week, but for Amber it was just as much fun. There were rooms where she could pretend to be a doctor, work in a bank or do some construction work, among other things (the bank room had an interactive ATM simulator that my 波ちゃん especially enjoyed playing with), while the upstairs area had some neat displays involving ping-pong balls and demonstrations of some basic physics principles.
Amber demonstrates the importance of good oral hygiene.
My daughter works the cash register at the supermarket.
Between the aforementioned kids museums, the puppet museum in Bremerton, the free play areas at the shopping malls in Silverdale and Lynnwood, and the excellent TV programs being aired on PBS Kids and Sprout (not to mention our snow excursion to Snoqualmie), Amber didn't lack for things to keep her busy and entertained during the time we were in the States.
Following a lunch of teriyaki chicken in Bainbridge (teriyaki 照り焼き seems to be much more popular in the Pacific Northwest than it is in Japan), and some last-minute shopping for children's books at Barnes & Noble in Silverdale (where we picked up The Cat in the Hat), Amber and I returned to my parents' home. There, we relaxed until dinner time, when the five of us had our final meal together at the Hale's Alehouse in the Kitsap Mall. Dinner was a bacon cheeseburger, washed down with a Hale's Pale American Ale and a Mongoose IPA - no wonder it gets harder each year to work up the effort to return to T'áiwān 台灣.
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