How to get to Sesame Street

Ok I admit that I LOVE Sesame Street and that I always have loved it since I was old enough to watch it way back before Elmo was the main star of the show. I love the songs, the Muppets, the people and heck my oldest brother does a great Cookie Monster impersonation. I also have 2 little girls that LOVE to watch Sesame Street quite a bit if only to catch a glimpse of their lovable and furry red friend ELMO (who Anna lately has been calling Elmo-head). Lily can sing parts of the theme song (the old school one).. and both Anna and Lily can identify Big Bird, Oscar, Cookie and Elmo with very little prompting.


So the other day the girls and I were watching a Sesame Street DVD and checking out the previews of some of the other DVDs that Sesame Street has... and I was looking up the various titles on our library's webpage to see if they have any of them on their shelves.. while doing this I found an interesting looking book and decided that I needed to read this book.. since it was all about the beginnings of Sesame Street and how it came to be and has evolved over the past 40 years. So I requested the book on a Friday (Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis) and picked it up the following Monday. I must admit that the book itself terrified me at first by the size of it. I was expecting something a bit fluffier but once I started to read the book and got into it I was hooked. It's been an amazing read so far... Lee has even picked it up and started reading it too as evidenced by the presence of 2 bookmarks in the book (3 if you count the one that I'm using in the Notes section).

I've learned quite a bit about Sesame Street and gained so much insight... I even started to watch some of the first episodes via youtube. Both Anna and Lily have been enjoying this also and we might be the proud owners of the Sesame Street Old School DVDs soon since the girls are totally into the old episodes too.

Maybe just maybe we can eventually make a trip to Sesame Place before the girls outgrow watching Sesame Street. Then again I never really have so there might be plenty of time for that trip.