What a day, what a
day! We spent almost 6 hours at the Children's Museum today. All of
us were exhausted at the end, but we had such an enjoyable time! I
thought that I would share some of the highlights with all of you.
You should be warned that this will be a rather loooooong post. This
post will also have many images, so I hope you enjoy them as well.
When we arrived
initially, we were greeted by the one of the Egyptian gods. It was
Anubis, and he towered about two stories high. The statue of him was
visible right outside our van door. He was definitely a sight to
behold.
As we entered the
museum, yet before we purchased our tickets we were humored by
something that foretold a future exhibit. It was a Darth Vader car,
and it was promoting the new Hot Wheels exhibit that begins in May,
if I remember correctly. For some reason it felt reminiscent of the
style of car that Disney's Darkwing Duck drove back in the day.
One of the things I
thought was most interesting was in the area around the Dinosphere.
There is an area where you can draw and they have replicas of
different prehistoric teeth. One such replica was a Megalodon tooth.
The tooth, as you can plainly see, is as big as my daughter's hand.
I asked her to imagine a Great White shark as long as our house with
six rows of teeth like this. Her eyes widened a bit as she thought
about it. After all, a prehistoric shark that could basically fit a
VW Beetle in its mouth is nothing to scoff at.
After that it was
off to a special exhibit that was based around the Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles. Both my sister and my kids were anxious to see this.
I think one of the highlights was the replica of one of the costumes
used in the first live action movie. They had a game where you
launched foam pizzas at pictures of the bad guys and even had skate
board decks on stationary mounts so you could try them out.
After that it was
off to the exhibit entitled Alien Worlds and Androids. This exhibit
featured replicas from Star Wars, The Terminator, Iron
Man, Star Trek ( 2009 ), and even Gort from The Day the
Earth Stood Still and Robby from The Forbidden Planet. I
was really hoping that they would have had a Dalek from Doctor
Who, but hey, maybe that was asking too much. Haha! Chloe and
Noah loved trying to work a real, functional robotic arm. Even
though the task was simple; you were asked to stack blocks on top of
each other, it proved not as easy as it looked.
There was another
exhibit that I thought was interesting that dealt with the topic of
discrimination. In three different sections that were all connected
together, you were able to see facets of the lives of Anne Frank,
Ruby Bridges, and Ryan White. Each facet dealt with their personal
lives as well as their public lives. There was one specific part
that caught my attention, though, as it was somewhat personal to me.
In the Anne Frank section there was a board that read, “Why did
Hitler target Jews and other groups?” When you lifted it,
underneath it read, “Hitler believed that certain Germans were a
superior race” and went on to list some of the groups thought to be
inferior. It was a bit of a surprise that Jehovah's Witnesses were
included in the list. Many people do not realize that persons of my
faith suffered alongside the Jews. While the Jews wore a yellow star
to identify them, Witnesses wore purple triangles. I felt honored to
see them mentioned there.
There was so much
more that I could speak on but I think that will do it for now.
Suffice it to say, we had an amazing time. If you have the chance,
take a look for yourselves. It's definitely worth it.
