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But finally after about an hour and a half of getting trampled by dirty, unruly children and teens with no supervision, I decided to inquire at the front desk if it would perhaps be possible to get a voucher to come back another day or perhaps even be given a discounted offer or coupon so that we could come back on a less miserable day. But my kids had been having a good time (when they weren't getting crushed) and again, we had driven so far, I tried to suck it up. It was tolerable inside about the first half hour but once the place began filling up, it became increasingly unbearable, stinky and loud. But since we had made the drive I went ahead and paid what it took to get in (pretty sure we were the only people there who paid to get in). Unfortunately, to my dismay, when we arrived, there were a ton of people in line, and subsequently we realized that it was 'first Tuesdays Santa Ana residents get in free' day (if you've ever been to Santa Ana, you'll realize this can be a scary prospect).

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One thing that appealed to me when planning this day out was that the admission price is not cheap ($15 a person and it probably only takes about 2 hours to see everything if you are slow) and so my hope was that there would not be too many unruly children running around with no supervision as there often are at less expensive and free children's' museums.

For years I had thought about taking my kids here but had never gotten it together to make the 40 mile trek from home.