Thursday, April 1, 2010

field museum



We visited the Field Museum in CHicago recently. IT was great. One of the exhibits was "it came from underground" and everything was as if you had shrunk to 1/100 of your normal size. This was Maddie's favorite place. She liked ot pretend to be 1/100 of her size, and crawl around in the dirt. There were also lots of moving scale sized ants, crawdads and other bugs. Even a wolf spider eating a grub. Caleb was frightened by these. The kids all got to crawl into a cicada shell and pretend to molt.
I was particularly impressed by the display of meteorites and the extensive dinosaur collection, including Sue, the most complete tyrannosaurus rex ever found.
After the museum we played outside. It was really fun and took all day long!

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