Day at the Museum(s)

Since I am off work this week I wanted to take Addy to do something special. She is into dinosaurs so I decided on the Natural History Museum in Denver.

{ I actually walked out of the house without a camera this morning so all of these photos are taken with my phone ( said with sheepish grin).}

Pharaoh Addy, Addy and CleoCatra

( she batted her eyes and Grandpa Jim melted. The child has skills.)

Grandpa Jim has been wanting to see the King Tut exhibit that is in town. We assumed that it was at the Natural History Museum...um,wrong. It was at the the Denver Art Museum so we ended up at both. We started the day at the DAM (Denver Art Museum). It was 25 dollars per person (thankfully Addy was free) and took us about an hour to walk through. It was not what we were expecting but the fact that is was at an art museum should have been a clue. There were no mummies, mostly statues and jewelry pieces (yeah!) and a couple coffins. They had some interesting facts and they staggered groups so that it was not too crowded. It was interesting but overpriced.

Next stop, Natural History Museum. Addy was excited as soon as we walked in and saw this.

I discovered that Addy's favorite dinosaur is a Triceratops. We were on the hunt for one has soon as we entered the Prehistoric Exhibit.

Addy was very good and listened to the docent talk about each item and even asked a couple of questions. Ahh, my smart baby.

I took a picture of this giant pig that used to roam Nebraska to show John. All I could think of when I saw this was " I want my baby-back, baby-back, baby-back, Chili's baby-back ribs!"

We hung out in the Discovery Zone for a bit. They had a couple pits where the kids could unearth dinosaur bones.

Addy giggling at herself. Did you see the cranium on that kid?!

I think Addy's absolute favorite spot was the space exhibit (like her father and PopPop). She got to dress up like an astronaut and drive a space ship and collect moon rocks.

She was very entertaining as Space Captain Addy. She came up with intergalactic emergencies like running low on gas and went into hero mode to save her crew. She was able to land at a gas station in the nick of time.

She did not. want. to. leave. ever.

It was a good day and my feet are killing me!

Addy learned a new word today. Skyscraper. She knew what the two words separately meant but couldn't wrap her head around way a building needs to scrape the sky.

" Do you push a button and it scape's the sky?"

"How do you make a skyscraper?"

"Does it touch the clouds?"

" Why does it need to scrape the sky?"