Night At The Museum

Have I mentioned how much I love the city I live in?  I really love the city I live in.  They do a lot of community events and this month, Michael took Jared, Gavin & Scott to the annual “Night At The Museum” at our local museum.  They had all sorts of volunteers dressed in character.  I’m going to let Michael type up a little description.  I stayed home with Mason….he has a tendency to be a little difficult when it comes to things like this.  It’s the age….

Well, I took the boys down to the museum, parked, to find that it was freezing outside.  We had to park about a block away since it was the happening thing to do in that part of town.  As we neared the museum we saw that the line to get inside was LONG!  We spent at least 45 minutes in line, in seriously freezing cold windy weather.  The only cool thing about the line was a man dressed in old time mountain man gear (Jared called him Robin Hood) with a real live Golden Eagle on his arm.  He showed us the eagle, tell us stories about it, cool facts about it and many other birds he has including falcons and hawks.  It was pretty impressive to see a golden eagle that close.  My boys liked it too.

 

Once we finally got inside they had a large foam dinosaur that people moved with rope and pulleys.  That totally reminded my boys of the night at the museum movies.  We saw cool rocks, a real painter painting, little girls in ballerina outfits in a large frame dancing as if the picture had come alive.  They also had a native American Hopi  Indian doing the hoop dance. Very impressive also.  At one point a lady worker in costume looked at my boys and asked if they were scared of turtles.  Of course they said no.  She then looked at me and, talking to them said, I bet he is scared of turtles to which I agreed.  Gavin looked up at her and said, “I have been with him 7 years and I know he is not scared of turtles.”  That gave me a good laugh.