A trip to the coast, going to a children's museum and an encounter with a donkey

Today was a gorgeous day; 75 degrees out, no humidity a perfect day for an outing.  We decided to travel down the coast to visit a children's museum and to just spend the day outside.

On our way to Rockland, we made a stop at Perry's Nuthouse.  This was my first trip inside, and believe me when they say nuthouse they are not kidding.  There is so much crap stuff inside you could spend hours looking and not see everything.  There is also a stuffed albatross (who knew they were that big?) and a real mummy (looked faked to me, but then again I've never seen a mummy before).  The fudge is delish and they offer you free samples when you come into the door.

As soon as we walked in Jack wanted to try on some hats.

I thought the pirate would scare Jack (he scared me!), but he got right next to him.  The pirate's name was also Jack.

Here is the mummy.  The thing definitely gave me the heebie-jeebies.  Again, I'm no archaeologist, but doesn't it look fake?

After purchasing some trinkets, we then journeyed back to the car and headed for the children's museum in Rockland.  Right in front of the museum there was a petting zoo.  Jack being the animal lover that he is made a beeline to the animals.

He LOVED the chickens

Here is Jack feeding a donkey.  More on the donkey later...

A goat and her kid

 There was also a miniature pony, sheep and piglet.  The piglet was adorable.  Maybe it's due to the fact the I've read Charlotte's Web too many times, but I would love to have a piglet if they stayed this size.

Jack was super gentle with the rabbit

Okay, so right after the above picture was taken, the donkey decides to clamp onto my son's arm with his jaws.  I see Jack's face freeze and I start walking toward him thinking: "Okay, the donkey is going to let go. I know their teeth aren't sharp and Jack isn't crying."

I was maybe ten feet away and it was then that I realize that this donkey is not going to let go. Jack's face has now turned from shocked to panic and he starts crying.  That ten feet now feels like ten miles.  I rush over not having a plan at all on what I was going to do, but I reach over to the donkey and grasp her mouth like I do when I want my dog to drop the stick she's holding.  I also screamed something at the donkey (I can't remember what now), but she let go immediately (thank God).

Fortunately, it didn't break the skin, he was able to move his arm and fingers and there wasn't any swelling.  The owners of the donkey were super nice and apologized profusely saying that she (the donkey) thinks everything is a bottle.

We cleaned Jack up and took him for a little walk, he calmed down and he said he wanted to stay and play at the museum.  For those that want to know what a donkey's teeth impressions look like check out Jack's arm

Jack absolutely loved the over-sized lobster trap.  In fact he loved it so much we couldn't pry him away.  Bryan thinks he could build something similar for Jack.  We'd have to keep it outside, but what what little kid wouldn't want one of these in their backyard?

Taking a closer look at the fish

Goofballs!

Playing with the Hoberman Sphere