The Natural History Museum...Not So Boring After All

I'm guilty. I judged a book by its cover. More specifically, I judged the Natural History museum by its name. Maybe its just me, but upon hearing the words "Natural History Museum," all I could think was, "boring boring boring." (Evidently I'm not much of a history buff. Except when it comes to historical fiction, for which there are unfortunately no museums.) Turns out, though, it's actually a pretty fun place.

Lesson learned. Even museums with boring names can be fun. (But that does not mean I'll be hitting the Bead Museum anytime soon. I'm not that easily convinced.)

Of course, there were the obligatory dinosaur bones...

But there were also fun puzzles,

(really, really fun, by the looks of it)...

And you could even build your own dinosaur.

(My dream dinosaur does laundry and packs lunches,

but they didn't have all the parts for that one.)

They even provided this little girl to heighten the experience.

Lex busied herself with this puzzle

long enough to take a picture,

and ran around like a mad-woman in a

dinosaur museum for the rest of the time.

There were lovely sand toys

(note the goofy face that Savanna is making)

and plenty of things to entertain a curious 15-month-old.

Here was my favorite part of the experience.

A random chair in a random hallway

that was so comfortable I could have...

well, spent the Night at the Museum.

More puzzles...

a favorite Alexa moment...

And panning for gold!

We're still thinking of a way to spend all our findings.

The girls dug for dinosaur bones...

And got super-imposed onto a TV screen

featuring sea life. Good times.

Lex and I showed up in a strange Western movie...

(but wait, aren't all Westerns strange?)

And the girls got to lounge on this lovely sea turtle.

All in all, we had a really great time.

Looks like we really picked a winner!