Dinosaurs
A few weekends ago Several months ago (I wrote this ages ago and then forgot about it!) it was grey and rainy so we passed up the zoo for the science museum. There was a dinosaur exhibit going on that we didn’t want to miss. The Boo has recently taken not only to dinosaurs, but the concept of their bones, thanks to one of his favorite online games where you put the bones together to form a dinosaur who them walks off the screen.
The exhibit itself was pretty good. There’s not much sign reading when it comes to taking Nathan to the museum, but the dinosaurs were big and this was good. There were your usual “sharp tooth” T-Rex type dinosaur, a brontosaurus type dinosaur, and a myriad of other smaller ones.
The best part? The exhibit on dinosaur eggs. They showed some with babies coming out of the eggs, and some models of eggs with babies still in them. Nathan found this endlessly fascinating. Plus they had some boxes where you could “dig” and discover eggs. This was fun too.
The Pacific Science Museum is a strange beast. They have a million things to look at and you would think it would be heaven. There are outdoor water cannons that you can fire into a pond, there’s a digger indoors where you can, not surprisingly, dig, there’s an entire section devoted to toddlers and water play, there’s a butterfly house and accompanying insect exhibit (where you can even pet giant hissing cockroaches), somewhere there’s a wind tunnel that we haven’t found yet, and there’s even a model space ship you can climb in. But somehow it always seems lacking. I’m not sure why!
Anyway. Dinosaurs were good and the boy’s current favorite movie is about dinosaurs as well. He’s all boy, that’s for sure!