Someone please convince Ryan to wear her hair down! She refuses to cut it but also refuses to wear it down! It's so pretty!
Once again we were packed up and on the road by 9:30 this time headed to a pretty fun looking science museum. What caught my attention was a panda IMAX movie that I just knew our panda-loving Ryan would want to see. And for my other science museum snobs I knew there was plenty for them as well. This museum would have to rate for one of our top 3 museums. Usually we spend roughly 3 hours at museums but this one we were still there after 6! And we mostly skipped an entire floor! The kids had so much fun!
First we had to put together some ice age dinosaur bones and visit the temporary Ice Age exhibit.
We volunteer at home with the archaeology network trying to find some Pensacola area artifacts, so the kids are used to sorting through dirt. But this was 9,000 year old dirt found in New York! Apparently there was an entire mammoth skeleton found in a backyard pond and this was some of the dirt around it they were having kids sort through. They found some of the tiniest shells I've ever seen!
This is one of those boards with all the pins so you can put your hand of face up to one side and your outline shows on the other side. They had some animal print tiles you could press in. Check out that grizzly bear paw! The moose is at the top - wow!
After the IMAX movie, a snack, and the Planetarium show we headed to the actual museum and were overwhelmed with the amount of activites and learning opportunities! There were animals, and computers, and hands-on exhibits, oh my!
Laney and Ryan polished some rocks - they turned out great!
Here is what our children would look like if there were moose!
A random porcupine waddling around the science museum...
We did several news reports on tornadoes and life on Mars!
This was a hands down favorite of the whole museum. Who knew you just needed to hand our kids a couple phones and they would be thoroughly entertained?!
I think they could have raced for hours if we'd let them.
Laney and I built this one! This is when Lego instruction experience comes in very handy!
Our last stop was the dreaded bed of nails! Even Grammie did it!
Once we finally decided to leave, we made the hour drive to the park then met Grammie and Laney for dinner at the lodge where Brayden and Grammie would be staying. The dinner was outstanding once again! The kids tried the local fish and shared Ryan's grilled cheese while Grammie and I had other local fish entrees.
It definitely showed how little we eat out at nice restaurants as the kids were unsure where to put their bread and which utensils to use for what! We all thoroughly enjoyed our food and after a peek at Grammie's room, the girls and I headed back and crashed for the night. Science is exhausting!
