Utah Museum of Natural History

Monday we went on a "Field Trip" to the Utah Museum of Natural History with Wendy, Roman, and my mom. On the first Monday of every month is free family day at the museum. The kids started out digging for dinosaur bones. Roman didn't like the rocks and didn't want to actually get all the way into the digging area but preferred to do his digging from the edge.

Then we checked out how the kids would "Size up" to a dinosaur's footprint and bone.

Next we checked out the native American exhibit. The kids found a Tee pee that the kids were all ready to move into and have a camp-out. Then we found a display where the kids were able to look up-close at real artifacts.

The next exhibit was "Bugs Alive" and let me tell you there were some disgusting bugs in there. There were cockroaches (Huge ones that I had hoped I left behind in Hawaii), massive wolf spiders, ants, and just bugs...ugh, my skin is CRAWLING just writing about it. There was also a Brine Shrimp bubble tank that Wendy found made for some funny pictures of the kids. So, we have bubble Roman, Kaylee, and Gabby. Gabby found the puppet show area and put on an excellent show with Kaylee and Roman. The show included a frog, ants, a bumblebee, and spider.

On our way out of the museum there was a dinosaur that eats coins and talks when you feed him coins. The kids each fed him a coin and he talked in his deep raspy voice to them. Later Roman told Wendy that he shouldn't eat coins because that would make him sick, and isn't good for him.