Museum on a Rainy Day

Knowing that it was going to be a very raining day, Collin and I met Timmy and Aunt Lisa at a new science museum....well, knew to us.  It's been open since 2009 but we have not made it there yet. 

I had not even paid for our tickets yet and the kids were already pointing at the sharks, turtle and dinosaur bones.  The gift shop is right by the entrance (they knew what they were doing when they built it there, right?) so the kids were picking out what they wanted us to buy.  After finally getting the tickets, we stopped first at the archaeological dig.  It was a pit filled with dirt covering fake dinosaur bones.  The boys had a good time using shovels and other tools to uncover the bones.  They then played in the ball pit next to the dig pit...which was for the little kids...but there were not any around at the moment so the boys had a good time in there.  They had fun jumping and then landing on the balls.  Lisa and I were surprised that they did not smash the balls because of the amount of jumping they were doing.

Excited that they might have found the bones to the head

Timmy selecting his tools

The ball pit.  Let the jumping begin!

We then toured the rest of the museum.  The boys were not interested too much in the quartz that was the first section we stopped in.  Up the stairs we went to the dinosaur bones.  Collin did not want to stay long because he was scared.  He said he was not but he was fine as soon as we left the area.  Next, they got to dig and find teeth, shells and other objects. 

Collin using the magnifying glass to find a tooth

Aunt Lisa helping Timmy find a shell

We then went to the discovery section were the kids could see how things worked.  Timmy liked playing with the pulley system to lift the bags or the spinning the wheel to turn this sphere.  Collin liked pushing this button to make the air flow and push the ping pong ball in the air...and then stop the flow. 

We went into the portable planetarium to watch a movie about the Earth and the moon.  The boys liked laying on the floor to watch the movie on the ceiling.  They both did end up sitting by me in the middle of the movie.  We then went to the reptile section and the boys LOVED picking out the frogs in each of the containers.  Collin did get frustrated a few times when he could not find a frog even after we pointed it out to him.

Looking at the frog tank

Here they are showing us the animal with the biggest, then the sharpest and the smallest teeth.  They started fighting and getting cranky which really meant "we are ready to leave and eat lunch". 

Before we left, Aunt Lisa bought both the boys several miniature dinosaurs.  Thanks Aunt Lisa!!!  We stopped at Beck's Prime for lunch.  Collin ate like he had not eaten in a few days devouring several bites of hot dog and fries.  Timmy, on the other hand, did not touch his food except to push it out of the way of playing with his dinosaurs. 

Collin and I ran a few errands on the way home.  I put in James and the Giant Peach movie when we got home for him to relax before Kyana's birthday party.  It took an hour bu he is napping now.  What a great morning/afternoon.