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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Museum of Life and Science

Last Friday, Greg, Brayden and I spent the day at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.  A few friends of mine had recommended it, so we decided to check it out.  I'm glad we did because Brayden loved it!  We got to see dinosaurs, bears, wolves, snakes, butterflies, spiders, pigs, cows, and SOOO many other animals.  They had an insectarium that I was NOT very fond of, but Greg thought it was awesome.  Here are a few pictures of our trip:

 Playing at the park
 The entrance to the Dinosaur Trail....by far, Brayden's FAVORITE thing at the museum!

 A few of the dinosaurs along the trail
 Digging for fossils with daddy
 Watching the bears

 In the butterfly house...Brayden was scared of all the butterflies flying all around!!  Not the dinosaurs or the bears, but the butterflies  : )
 Talking to the cow at the farmyard exhibit
 Testing out the different sounds of the drums
Worn out from a long day

We also spent time in their kids exploration area inside that had lots of neat things for Brayden to play with.  He enjoyed the mini space shuttle in their space exhibit.  He would push all the buttons and yell "Blastoff" over and over again!  There were a couple of things we didn't make it to because we were too exhausted after so much walking, so we'll definitely have to go back sometime.  Brayden has asked to go see the dinosaurs again several times since we went!

2 comments:

Grandma said...

I am glad my boy had a good day. I think I would like to visit there, too! Maybe a big family trip sometime.

Catherine said...

Looks like fun, we'd like the family trip idea too.