Museum of Natural Science

Ben and I are now members of the Museum of Natural Science in Houston, Texas.  We went to the museum on labor day (our day off) and quickly fell in love with the place.  Good thing we became members because we only got through a third of the museum the day we were there.  We love the Dinosaur exhibit and the African Wilderness exhibit.  Ben was so fun wanting to make sure we quizzed ourselves afterwards on what we learned so we wouldn't forget.  He is such a great teacher!  My favorite part was the chemistry show done by a volunteer who reminded me so much of my Dad!  The show was mostly for little kids explaining things like density, acidity and bases etc.  I was smiling from ear to ear because his experiments were things that Ben and I can do at home.  Finally my chance to shine came when he asked for an older volunteer for one of the experiments.  I shot my hand up and he must have seen my enthusiasm and called on me.  Just so you know Diet Pepsi floats and regular Pepsi sinks because of the sugars in them. 


We also went to the last day of the temporary Magic exhibit where we saw a live magic show and lots of cool displays about the history of magic.  I'm not such a magic person, but Ben loved it.  He is so curious and says he is "as curious as a cat and that is why his friends call him whiskers".  After the show I proceeded  to walk out and I lost sight of Ben for a minute and I turned around to find him getting in trouble by a worker because he was going in a door he shouldn't go through without permission.  I went back to find him and he got permission to go in the door- so I went with him and it led us into a "mock train" which was an illusion train- complete with moving floor, mist and fake snow.  I was so creeped out, but Ben thought it was hilarious that I was so scared of the illusion train that he just laughed most of the time.  We have so much fun together!