Food for babies, dialogue with the old

Sometimes the activities I chose for my kids are historical, sometimes they are moving, sometimes they are meaningful or educational. At times I chose adventures or unique experiences. Today, along with most of my sister's children, we went to the Bamba Baby house in Holon.  Perhaps a bit historical, not really moving, in a stretch it was educational, getting there (or anywhere) is an adventure, and it certainly is unique. Visiting Bamba is free, but you need to book it we'll in advance. We were brought into a room with Bamba shaped pillows and given as much Bamba as you wanted. They had a display of past Bamba packaging. Our guide talked about how Bamba is made and showed us with mock up machines. We then got to tour the real factory with our beautiful hair nets in place. Next we saw packaging department. Did you know there is no flavor difference between the Bamba in blue packages and Bamba in orange packages?? Our tour finished with a very cute animated movie starring the Bamba Baby. It was all in Hebrew, but since it was geared for little kids my kids understood most of it. My 6 year old niece does not have a TV at home. She does not go to the movies or watch videos  at home.  She moved to Israel when she was very young and doesn't remember days at Bubbie and Zayde surrounded by Dora and SpongeBob. When the Animated Bamba Baby flew in his plane at the screen, she screamed thinking it would crash into us!
     Holon happens to have a decent amount of potential activities. Next activity planned was at the Israel Children's Museum. They have a few things for little kids, but they are more like experiences than the type of museum you enter and explore at will. They are also famous for something called "Dialogue in the Darkness" which you do in and experience everything in the pitch black lead by blind docents to help sighted people understand the life of the blind better. We couldn't get a reservation to that one, but we did get a time for "Dialogue with Time", their newest exhibit/ experience. The purpose of that one is to help younger people understand the limitations of the elderly. Also, to see how there are different ways to experience old age.  We were lead through with our guide Mario who is 73 and originally from Uruguay. It was a very moving, educational, meaningful and unique experience.
     The little girls were too young for the exhibit. Right next to the museum is a park with the most complex rope equipment we have seen. We ate our lunch, had the kids climb around and play until it began to drizzle.
      Thursday night my sister has the tradition of giving her kids a bit of money and sending them into the Mercaz to get some dinner. So I did it too. I gave the boys some money and sent them on their way. They went with their cousins so they could order and pay. In the mean time my sister and I went  out to eat.