Museum Themed

Last Saturday, it rained and rained and rained. Luckily, it was free Smithsonian day at participating museums in other cities. We adventured up to Pittsburgh to take a peek at their Natural History Museum, which was hands down the best fossil collection I have ever seen. The first T-Rex ever discovered is displayed there.





They had little stations set up with volunteers that the kids could interact with...

This is an actual elephant ear


This station had an imploded dino egg, but Becket was more interested in showing the volunteer his new Homer Simpson watch that he got at a garage sale the day before. It says, "MMMMmmm burgers," when you push the button.



The kids did a little digging themselves.



I can't resist pictures when kids are wearing goggles.



We headed across the street to the nationality classrooms at the University of Pittsburgh. They have 27 rooms that are designed by architects to make it feel like you are in another country in the 18th century. Very Neat!




The building itself looked like a Gothic cathedral. It has been known as the world's tallest schoolhouse. Mat made the comment that you could film a really cool movie in here.


On our way home, we took a wrong road. Not surprised? It's been happening our whole married life. What's sad is that we had Mat's phone and GPS to guide the way and we still got lost.
The positive is that we ran into these babies at a local farmer's market.

They're back and better than ever, the honey crisp apple.



Later that night, we watched Night of the Museum for the first time. I liked it! Micah is now walking around the house saying, "I want some gum, gum. Goodbye, Dumb Dumb."