Apple Store Adventure

5/14/12

On Sunday last week, my husband and I took my daughter to the Apple store in Old Town Pasadena.  We were just there to browse around and look at all the cool stuff that Apple has.  I was mostly interested in the new Macbook Air.  It is such a great laptop for a grad student like me, but I digress.  My daughter wanted to go the children area to play with the iPads that were being displayed on the table.  They only had 4 spots to play and when we got there, lo and beholds, all the spots were taken.  So, I had to find something else to distract the attention span of a 2 1/2 years old away from what she wants.  I decided to put her up onto a chair at an unoccupied table with the magical Mac Air, while I watched a how-to-use an iPhone presentation.  Since all the products in the Apple Store are connected to the internet through wireless, I decided to let her being occupied by watching Youtube.  It took her less than 5 minutes to figure out how to navigate the mouse when her "touch the screen" adventure (iAnything generation) did not yield any results.  So, I left her went on doing her own thing while I watched her with amusement.  The next thing I know, she was on a site with flash games and playing it like a pro.  She learned so quickly on the game works, but also got bored really easily.  About 20 minutes of fiddling around, she has to use the restroom and that concluded our Apple Store Adventure.  It is really amazing what technology can do to a growing child!!!