Sunday, October 05, 2008

Arizona Museum of Natural History

Last Saturday we decided to take a road trip to Mesa to go to The Arizona Museum of Natural History! What a drive, but so, so worth it! It is a really great place and we all had a wonderful time. There was one part we didn't get to and it was a hands on area like for crafts and stuff. We were headed in there and they were closing for a birthday party. But there is so much to see. Not just dinosaurs. We took my mom along. Jeff was home sick, poor guy. So that really gives us an excuse to go back again soon! I highly recommend it!
http://www.arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/Home.aspx
As we are walking into the museum we had to have his picture taken with these guys!

Inside the lobby area, these Mammoths are so huge!
Inside the exhibit



They had volunteers to expalin things. This guy was showing Sam some fossils. Sam had many questions for him.


Posing as a dinosaur himself, full sound effects as well!


He wanted me to take this picture of this shark so we can give it to his best buddy Zack!




They have this huge mountain built inside that is like 3 or 4 stories high. There are dinosaurs on each level and they move and make noise. There is a waterful as well that trickles down. And like every 10 minutes there is a flood and it just poors down the mountain. The pictures really don't do it justice, it is very cool!



Sam & Granny at the very top of Dino Mountain all the way to right.


Looking down
Looking WAY down at some eggs..


Poop Scene Investigation! They have an are that shows you many different animals and their dung! What it is good for, why it is the color it is, who are the worst offenders, all kinds of silly things.





Just checking out things....



The 3 of us in jail. Wow these jail rooms were tiny!

Poor little granny in jail, Sam put her in there and giggled his crazy giggle!
We went outside to pan for gold!



Comparing his foot!

These 2 below are in the lobby. It is amazing how huge they are, so impressive.

After our adventure we wanted to go to Organ Stop Pizza since it is in the area, but after driving around looking for it we called and they weren't even going to open until 5pm, bummer! So we went and had some lunch at Oreganos. Sam loved playing wioth the ball of dough they give to kids!

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