Nights at the Museums

Here's a post I started and forgot to finish.  Better late than never (especially because about half my posts never get finished.)  I remembered I was trying to downsize a video of the kids dancing to include in this, and never figured it out, and then forgot to post this altogether last spring.  So...

On our Spring Break trip to Utah, we went to 2 different museums on 2 different nights.  I wanted to at least walk through the Church History Museum to see the Pioneer stuff, but a pleasant surprise awaited us upstairs.  The Childrens' Room was called something like "Adventures in Book of Mormon Lands" and was so fun! We ended up staying for another hour or more.  I didn't take pictures of every part of it, because my battery was running out at the end of this long fun day on Temple Square.

This painting is titled "Faith, Hope and Charity," and was located right behind the statue of Moroni upstairs.
This was probably our (Alana, Hanna and myself) favorite painting there.

This was a favorite.  What fun skirts!  Even Bridger loved dressing up and dancing along with the screens in the background Latino style.  

(There was a big mirror set up so the kids could see themselves and the dance leaders behind them on the screens at the same time.)

Nephi's Boat, complete with Liahona inside.  

Bridger liked playing with the magnetic fishing pole and fish the best.

(That's a fish in his hand.)

My favorite:  the pieced quilt magnet wall.

Aspen "quilting".

Skipping down the sidewalk in the rain with Grandmary. (Grandma-Mary.)  

After that, we went and ate at Crown Burger for our first time.  Yum.

The other museum was the Bean Life Science Museum at BYU.  It's free, so that's nice!  

Molly is my first child to take such a liking to elephants.  She loves them, and she says "e-phant, Silly!" so cute!

Aspen was looking all over for a skunk, because she just wrote a book all about skunks at school.  We finally found this in the basement.  And she was OH-SO EXCITED to find this soft skunk puppet in the gift shop.  I wasn't going to let her get anything, but she was willing to pay for it herself.  Then she accidentally left it behind Grandma's bed the next day.  Hope it doesn't scare Grandma when she finds it behind her bed!

(Funny how she likes them so much, even though we "dispose" of them around our place.)

 

Because of the great research Aspen's fantastic 2nd grade teacher has been helping them do in class, Aspen was also in a group who just wrote a book about owls.  So when Aspen sat in on a little museum demonstration here this night (with about 20 other people) , Aspen was the only one who knew the name of the owl being shown was a Great Horned Owl.  She was even brave enough to say it in front of all those strangers.  (An amazing accomplishment for her, since she usually clams up and doesn't speak a word around people she doesn't know.)  Good job Aspen!