Thursday, October 17, 2013

Tellus Science Musem

Emily invited us to tag along to a science museum last week, and we had a great time! Between Bella and Ally exploring, and Evelyn getting better walking on her own, I took about 200 pictures on my phone! Luckily, I was able to condense them down a little.
 
Dinosaur fossils...Bella loved this part! We even snuck Bella and Ally behind the massive shark jaw to take a picture.
 


The gemstone exhibit - Emily and I definitely appreciated this one more than the kids did! Emily and I had to chuckle that some of the stones said, "Do Not Touch", and some of them said, "Please Touch"; as though small children could read and tell the difference!


Digging for fossils and gemstones! Evelyn got to actually participate in this one! There were big areas set up, almost like sand pits, but filled with tiny pieces of rubber. The kids got to "dig" around and find actual fossils. The woman at the museum said they were real fossils from a site in Morocco. Each one of our littles got a small, plastic bag to put their fossils in and take home. 


This was the exhibit that I knew Steve would love! Lots of old cars and motorcycles, with a cool jet engine and helicopter thrown in for fun! I got to smile while Emily chased Ty around the machinery - he was rarin' to go around all of those "toys".


Ty and Evelyn loved the sound exhibit...they banged on drums and rattled cages.
 

 
More fossils - this collage is my favorite - on the left, the girls got "scared" in front of the T-Rex bones and checked out a huge footprint. On the right, they sniffed fossilized poop and posed in front of a mammoth skeleton. My favorite part is that, in the picture of all four kids, Evelyn is screaming her head off.
 
We had a great time with friends, exploring a bunch of different subjects! A couple of very friendly bees chased us out of our lunch pavilion, but other than that, we loved it!

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