Today we had lots of fun and stuff seeing lots of fun, stuffed animals.
I quote my friend Tanya in saying: the Bell Museum is a taxidermist’s dream. It was pretty dreamy for us homeschoolers, too! My friends & I got the kids together for an outing, first to the museum and then to an area park for a picnic lunch & a ton of playing.
Note to self: next time call ahead and ask about parking. 82-inch conversion vans and parking ramps with 84 inches of clearance do not go as well together as say, the peanut butter & jelly that the little woman has packed for lunch. When will I learn?
Oh well. It’s fun to park several blocks away from your destination! And it’s fun to ride the shuttle with all the college kids!
I don’t know. Somehow I think that given the fact that our college students have been shaken up quite a bit lately, seeing a child in their midst has got to be consoling.
So, the Bell Museum of Natural History is located on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In addition to all the really cool stuffed animals (birds, beavers, mink, caribou, moose, and a grizzly, to name a few), they have a touch-and-see room where the not-so-squeamish among us got to pet a real live snake.
Alas, I wasn’t there for that. I was—ahem—on the shuttle.
Oh, and they even had a room full of PEEPS dioramas!!! My children were so pleased, having pored over these when they were published in the paper on Easter Sunday.
Anyway. This was our day and it was fun.
Here are three of my favorite photos:
What fun. That last photograph looks like it could have been taken at our homeschool group here! Funny how those moms look so familiar.
Looks like a fun day to me! I bet having the younger bunch in the midst of the college kids just made their day! How refreshing to see innocent young faces after what they have had to deal with. Another good place for the little ones is a rest home. The elderly LOVE to see the kiddos!
Looks like great fun!
The Peeps collection was hilarious, I had to check that out and called my son over to see. Fortunately he thought that one particular picture was “firepeeps sliding down the fire pole” and not what I think the creator of that particular diarama was intending!! 🙂
My apologies re. the “fire pole” PEEPS diorama–I didn’t know that one was in there! 🙁