Over the past several months Ingrid has become a huge fan of the Japanese anime film My Neighbor Totoro so it was a natural fit that we head to the Ghibli Museum which was set up by the film's production studio to show the works of its creative force Hayao Miyazaki. The film Spirited Away was done by the same studio and received awards/attention in the US. The museum was incredible! It was like Harry Potter's school meets The Shire meets the Keebler Elf village. And on display were storyboards from the movies and a cool collection of zoetropes and other examples of cartooning magic. So much fun.
A key character in the movie is the Cat Bus, or "Mao Bus" as Ingrid calls it because 'cat' in Mandarin is 'mao.' On the museums top floor is a full scale stuffed animal of the bus that kids can jump around on. Lizzie and I came to realize that we have never, ever, ever seen Ingrid as happy as she was during the 30 minutes she played on this stuffed animal. Running around with the other kids, popping her head out of the window every so often to locate Mama and Dada to say "Mao Bus, Mao Bus."
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