I took half a day off last Friday to take my girlfriend to the zoo for her birthday. It was perfect zoo weather, by which I mean, negative a billion degrees out with a bit of ice falling from the sky, so she changed her mind and decided to go to the Franklin Institute. Turns out that the FI was clogged with school field trips, so we ended up at the Museum of Natural History & Science (her idea, she's an odd duck).
So we saw the sites, nearly sweated to death in the butterfly exhibit, went to the Franklin Institute after the kids returned to school, ended up getting Tut tickets because of the wonderful ice storm, wandered the Franklin Institute (which is free with Tut tickets, because they feel guilty about the price), and then saw King Tut (or at least some of his stuff).
Pictures of the Museum of Natural History and Science & The Franklin Institute
You probably don't need to read any of this, it's just me rambling on about the day:
I hadn't been to the MofNH&S since I was about 8 or 9 (at a Cub Scout lock-in, those were the days). I've decided that I still love dinosaurs, and they are still really, really big, even if not as big as I remember. Those stuffed birds/animals/etc must be really, really old, maybe 100 or 150 years old, which is odd to think about. And the mummy still creeps me out sixteen years later. The butterfly exhibit was interesting, and I played with my camera a bit, but don't go in with a butterfly nutter or you'll end up in there for an hour and half when they make a friend. They need to do a better job with the few live animals that they have in the basement, they have a live rare (at least in the USA) Egyptian cat with KING TUT being featured across the street, and I only caught a glimpse of it through pure luck (it's not labeled or really displayed, it jumped up and looked at me).
I'd been to the Franklin Institute more recently (age 11?), it's not quite as much fun as I remember it to be. However, I still love the Ben Franklin exhibit (he was my hero when I was little. Heck, he still is now. Also, this is random, but anyone know where Franklin stoves were cast?) The King Tut exhibit, despite the fact that they had (comparatively to the full loot) almost nothing there, was unbelievable. I know there was a thread on it earlier, but I highly recommend it. I did not like the no pictures policy, but I swallowed my pride and bought a postcard set of the exhibit.
Finally, I hate weather people. I'm still not sure how my poor car made it home through that mess at 8:30 at night.
So we saw the sites, nearly sweated to death in the butterfly exhibit, went to the Franklin Institute after the kids returned to school, ended up getting Tut tickets because of the wonderful ice storm, wandered the Franklin Institute (which is free with Tut tickets, because they feel guilty about the price), and then saw King Tut (or at least some of his stuff).
Pictures of the Museum of Natural History and Science & The Franklin Institute
You probably don't need to read any of this, it's just me rambling on about the day:
I hadn't been to the MofNH&S since I was about 8 or 9 (at a Cub Scout lock-in, those were the days). I've decided that I still love dinosaurs, and they are still really, really big, even if not as big as I remember. Those stuffed birds/animals/etc must be really, really old, maybe 100 or 150 years old, which is odd to think about. And the mummy still creeps me out sixteen years later. The butterfly exhibit was interesting, and I played with my camera a bit, but don't go in with a butterfly nutter or you'll end up in there for an hour and half when they make a friend. They need to do a better job with the few live animals that they have in the basement, they have a live rare (at least in the USA) Egyptian cat with KING TUT being featured across the street, and I only caught a glimpse of it through pure luck (it's not labeled or really displayed, it jumped up and looked at me).
I'd been to the Franklin Institute more recently (age 11?), it's not quite as much fun as I remember it to be. However, I still love the Ben Franklin exhibit (he was my hero when I was little. Heck, he still is now. Also, this is random, but anyone know where Franklin stoves were cast?) The King Tut exhibit, despite the fact that they had (comparatively to the full loot) almost nothing there, was unbelievable. I know there was a thread on it earlier, but I highly recommend it. I did not like the no pictures policy, but I swallowed my pride and bought a postcard set of the exhibit.
Finally, I hate weather people. I'm still not sure how my poor car made it home through that mess at 8:30 at night.
