Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Trip to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum was probably the kids favorite with exhibits of things that the kids are familiar with. When you enter the museum we saw the large mammal exhibit with a huge elephant in the middle. The kids were excited from the first moment.
Colton's absolute favorite area were the dinosaur exhibit. We even went through the dinosaurs twice and here Colton stands under the mouth of the great T-Rex. He almost looks like a little raptor.
Sarah loved the gift shops and all the cuddly animals. She loved seeing the exhibits too but she couldn't touch those. Sarah is a hands on everything baby and the soft and cuddly things are her absolute favorite.
My absolute LEAST favorite thing was walking through the insect exhibit and seeing the spider displays but Jay thought it would be ironic to get a picture of me with my LEAST favorite creature that God created on this earth, spiders.
Colton is certainly animal and insect friendly. Here he is holding the largest cockroach, a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. I say, "Yuck!!" and Colton says. "COOL!"
Sarah and Jay enjoyed viewing a few water bugs through the glass. I think Sarah would have looked at anything just to be able to climb and walk around by herself and not be strapped in the stroller. But our family favorite was the "Live Butterfly" exhibit where we went into an enclosed room that was full of tons of beautifully colored butterflies freely flying around.

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