Museum of Natural Sciences

We visited the Museum of Natural Science, along with the butterfly exhibit. When we first entered the museum I was a little disappointed...did we just pay $11.00 to see stuffed animals staged...pretending to be in the wild? Don't get me wrong, they had quite a few impressively stuffed animals, birds and reptiles from around the world.


After the butterfly exhibit, I definitely felt like we overpaid. 

However on our way out we saw a sign to the entrance of aquariums down stairs. It felt like you just entered a cave, in the center was a small shark tank barely big enough for the shark swimming in it. 😥  The cave had four different entrances in opposite directions. Each was filled with different species of live reptiles, spiders, turtles, and fish from all over the world. There was even a crocodile. There were rooms with geological, butterfly and ancient artifact exhibits, along with a dinosaur exhibit with five different mechanical dinosaurs that made sounds and moved. At one point I actually jumped at my shadow. As we were exiting there was a planetarium, but we had already spent an hour and a half and didn't feel like waiting for the next show. This made the cost much more worth it.





We found Nemo!

I believe Jim's favorite was an iguana, in which he tried to convince me he could speak with and mumbled something about a jailbreak. My favorite part was the reptiles which is ironic because of my fear of snakes. As I walked, I'd find myself scanning for snakes I could possibly encounter and for some reason I left a bit more on edge about our upcoming trip to the Amazon.  








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