For Ray’s birthday, Lee and De took her up to the Denver Museum of Natural History (or, as it’s renamed, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science). We hadn’t been up there since probably around when Katherine was born, so it was a fun visit, joined in with Randy, and with Meera and her crew, and Jackie and KK.
- Katherine, of course, was very much into the dinosaurs, being currently dinosaur-crazy.
- The space science hall was very cool, and we could probably have spent another coupleof hours there.
- Entertaining visit to the “hands-on” center.
- Nice mummy goodness, too.
- Spent some good time in the Body exhibit.
Katherine enjoyed it all, and learned a bunch of stuff, and we probably need to get back up there again some time soon to hit the pieces we didn’t get this time — minerals, more animal displays, etc.
The Titanic IMAX is running there right now, and they have a Titanic exhibition with lines snaking around all sorts of places. I’ve an interest in that, too, though whether Katherine would enjoy it is another matter.
The museum was, I was told, less crowded than usual — probably because it was Free Admission Day at the neighboring zoo — which, I suspect, was a, well, zoo.
Good times, good company.
Amongst the sightings in the stuffed animal displays: an American Avocet. Such familiar plumage …
Excellent!
😀
If your “evolutionary path” is the same as ours, the dinosaur phase will be followed by the “Pokemon phase”. Of course, your household is a lot more “graphically aware” than us, so you may already be there!
Yes, she has, in fact, (re)discovered Pokemon. The DVR now captures three different series (though she does not catch them all), she’s fascinated by a starter set we picked up a zillion years ago, and talks about Pokemon with her school friends.
There are, I suppose, worse passtimes … 🙂