Saturday January 14, 2012

Today we went to the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City.  It's a great place to visit if you are ever out this way.  It sits up on the mountain side and ever looks the Great Salt Lake Valley.  This picture was taken on the observation deck (sorry these pictures are such poor quality.  They were taken with the video camera b/c the battery was dead in the good camera.  Oppps!)

This museum has SO many amazing things to see.  There are plenty of hands on activities for the kids to learn on and explore.  There is so much to learn in each section of the museum that you could take almost a whole day to take in all the information.  We loved it! 

Some of our favorites were the insects that the kids could handle and learn about.

Alex was so excited to hold the hissing cockroach.  Yuck!  But he's all boy and loved it!

Here he is again with a stink bug.

Another shot of the stink bug.

They had so much fun here.  It was hard to keep them focused on the exhibits here on this floor b/c if they looked over to their right they would have seen the dinosaurs on the next floor and wouldn't want to see anything else.

The dinosaurs were quite a hit!  I didn't get the pictures of them that I wanted.  We will have to do that again some time soon.  They had a T-rex, giant sloth, wooly mammoth, an enormous bear, sabre tooth tigers, triceratops, raptors, and many more that I don't remember the names of. 

After wards we went out for pizza at the Pie in South Jordan.  The pizza was good but the experience was exhausting.  That's a story for another day.  Mom did really well the whole day.