Natural History Museum

Our house gets hot. Out side was hot. Swimming is hot. When it is 105 outside its just hot! On Saturday we did everything in our power to stay out of the house and ultimately to stay cool. We started the day by going to a delicious breakfast at a ma and pop hole in the wall place called Sharon's Cafe. It was delicious and cool.

After breakfast we went to the library and Kelsey was in love. She loves books and we have taken her there before but today it was like it was all brand new. She crawled from shelf to shelf for about 30 mins. It was so cute to watch her and it was early enough that no other little kids were there. Best thing about the library is that the library keeps the air at like 65 and it felt wonderful.

After the library we were going to run some errands but decided to go to the Natural History Museum instead. It was FANTASTIC!!! We had so much fun and Kelsey was so good the whole time. Luckily we brought enough food to tide her over and there were enough things to play with that she was very happy. We spent a good three hours there and seriously had a great time. After the museum we went to say hi to Aunt Hannah and Granpa Wing and then made our way home around 9. It was a great day and we were able to stay very cool the whole time.

Kelsey with the talking Dinosaur

Kelsey with the hand puppets

This is a photosynthesis machine but it had bubbles coming up every 10 seconds and the bubbles were a huge hit. 

Poor girl thought we were at the zoo. She kept laughing at the taxidermy wolf like it was a real puppy!

Dome fish tank which was full of bubbles!

Native American rocks, but she didn't really like it as much as we thought. The surface was rough and so it was hard to crawl on. Just walk child!! Just walk!!

My favorite part: Pot Puzzles! These were SO much harder than they looked but I was up for the challenge. 

Ethans favorite part: Dinosaur land!

This was an attempt to make it look like the maga Alligator was eating Kelsey's head. We lined it up right but it doesn't really look like anything cool. 

More Dino land

Kelsey played in the Dino "paw print" for like 15 min. She loved it

They had this awesome "backyard" section targeted specifically to kids. Kelsey loved the water and all the backyard animals. 

Dad is such a trooper! He crawled right into the cave with Kelsey

Crawling out was not as fun, but he is a trooper!

My second favorite part was the gem wall

This is a tree right outside the natural disasters section damaged by a tornado. That whole section was all kinda creepy.