Science Museum Field Trip--May 16, 2011

We went to the Science Museum of MN for a home school field trip. We saw the King Tut exhibit while we were there. They didn't allow us to take any pictures in the exhibit, but seeing as I hardly ever take pictures this was fine with me. ;-) The kids seemed to enjoy the trip. I know they liked the musical staircase. Beth and I liked the broadcast booth ☺ except that the kids kept speeding up the teleprompter. After the museum we headed over to the Mall of America.

This chair was huge! You were supposed to figure out how many times bigger all the furniture was versus the scale model. Yeah, I decided it was a great photo opportunity.

There was a mirror across from the chair. I was trying to snap a pic of the reflection. As you can see it didn't work the best.

Thankfully Beth jumped in and got an actual picture. Paige was not in the picture because she was over at the chemistry counter, learning about water.

Oh my word! This picture made me laugh so hard! My nephew Casey was trying on glasses that supposedly showed you how a newborn baby sees. His eyes were so huge from the magnification that I had to get a picture of him!

Beth took a picture of me at the music station.

Beth also got this picture of the kids and I participating in a lab. The kids were looking at their cheek cells under a microscope.

At the Mall of America we were looking for Angry Birds shirts, and we stopped at this t-shirt shop. There was a cardboard cut-out of Justin Bieber at the entrance, and Beth and Paige playfully posed by him. ☺

Underwater Adventures

On Friday, David, the girls, and I went to Underwater Adventures Aquarium in the Mall of America with our home school group. The aquarium is located in the basement of MOA, and you walk through a tunnel that runs UNDER the water. The animals swim above and around you. It is quite the experience. We walked through the tunnel twice, and we also went on a behind-the-scenes tour of their facility. We were shown their laboratory, kitchen, and we went up above the water and viewed the animals from up there. It was a great time! And because we were a "school" we received a HUGE discount. EXCELLENT!

After we were done at the aquarium, our family walked around the mall a little. We stopped at the LEGO store and the American Girls store. A stellar day overall!!

*The pictures were taken with Dave's camera phone so they're grainy. :(

This lady had the glamorous job of watering the turtles.

Paige and Emma by the freshwater turtle tank.

The turtles were swimming back and forth, and they were so adorable!


Hmmm...I can't remember what Paige was pointing at.


This is a great shot of the view from the tunnel. We were in the "MN frozen water" part of the aquarium. That was supposed to be fake ice on top of the water.


Minnesota alligator sturgeon. HUGE FISH!

Paige and Emma and their friend Kyle

A ray

Paige, Emma, and Kyle ran ahead of the group because they were so excited to see the sharks.

I was excited, too. ☺

These are some children in our home school group viewing the coral reef tank.

Myself, Paige, Emma and fellow homeschoolers by the pirate's booty

I was proud to be a sea scientist. ☺ I mostly had Dave take this picture so I could send it to Beth, my sister-in-law, so she could laugh at me. Huh. We never did send that picture... Well, you can laugh for her. ☺

At the end of the walking tour was an indoor playground made out of a pirate ship. Here is Paige among the treasure.

Emma playing in the pirate ship.

Emily was AWFULLY tired from all the walking, and she basically passed out in the car on the way home.