Museum

This last weekend, we went to the Denver Museum of Science and Nature. As an added bonus to all the wonderful things we saw, we discovered that with our military ID we get in for free. This is especially good considering that in about 3 hours we were only able to see most of one floor. There are 3 floors total plus the IMAX movies. We will definitely need to go back a few times to see everything.

We decided to start on floor 3. That's where the dinosaurs and mummies were. The first section we went through was the dinosaurs. Caleb put his new concerned look and squeal to use here. We'll have to put this behavior on video for you guys. He squinches up his face and fake cries when he thinks something is scary. The dinosaurs were scary, to him at least. We were able to see a lot of very neat fossils. This section was where we spent most of our time.

We then went through the Explore Colorado and the Africa sections. In the Explore Colorado there were a bunch of diaramas depicting lakes, mountains, tree lines and animals of Colorado. Africa had the same but African animals. Connected to the African display was display of gem carvings. These carvings were amazing. They were all of people and they had different colors that were created with only gems, no paint. Very cool!

The last display we saw was the mummies. Campbell and Aaron both really wanted to see this. Campbell could not get enough of the mummies. There were two mummies, one a rich woman and the other a poor woman. Campbell kept looking between the two mummies to see the differences in the wrappins and the coffins. She found this to be extremely interesting. She is definitely our little history buff.

The display we missed on the 3rd floor was the Ben Franklin display. Campbell is on spring break this week, so maybe we will go back to check that out. Also we will be heading over to the Denver Mint to see how money is made. We'll report on that when we go.