Antique Toy Museum

Ok, so I know this is already a week old, but I wanted to post some pics and tell a little about the museum we went to when we went to Indy to welcome Hunter's new cousin home.  It is called Carter's Antique Toy Museum, and it is Zionsville.  Because we went during the day on Friday, we had the whole place to ourselves.  It is a museum of toys that Mr. Carter has collected over the last 40+ years.  Then two years ago he built this building and arranged the toys in displays and Voila!...museum.  It was neat for the grown-ups to see toys that they played with as kids and there was a lot of, "Oh Hunter, Mommy's first lunchbox was just like this Mickey Mouse one." or "Dad had a truck just like that when he was growing up, but I sold it to Uncle Floyd when I was a teenager."  Plus this place had a carousel and two real bumper cars.  Hunter had never ridden bumper cars before but absolutely loved it.  I have video, but I wasn't clear that I just wanted a minute or two of us doing the bumper cars so our recorder has over seven minutes of us on the bumper cars.  Therefore I'm not putting it on the blog to bore you all.  

The whole basement was full of coin-operated rides (like you find in malls).  Hunter had no problem going through a few bucks worth of quarters, and he didn't even come close to riding them all.  Actually, I don't think he even rode half of them.  I told him just to pick his favorites.

They had a rodeo shooting game that Scott really liked, and because it didn't require quarters, he played it 3 or 4 times.

To finish our time at the museum, we went into the old-fashioned soda shop and had an ice cream cone.  They had a juke box with a lot of good oldies on it.  Hunter picked out 3 songs, and we danced around to "Lollipop, lollipop" and "Rockin' Robin".  It really helped break up our trip and gave us some good family memories.