Dinos at the Discovery Museum

We had a blast learning about the prehistoric creatures that roamed Lake County many, many years ago. Amelia is pretending to be a paleontologist by searching carefully for fossils in the sand.

"I found a fossil, Daddy!"

After, digging for dinosaurs we went to the praire land activity room. I am pretending to be an animal crawling through this big log.

This tree stump was surprisingly fun! Once you gathered some leaves and feathers, you put them into a hole in the stump and whoosh! All the leaves and feathers come flying out!

Amelia thought this was really cool, too!

This is called a Wigwam. The Native Americans that lived here in the plains built them out of tree branches and bark and lived in them. We were confused when Mommy told us that it was a house that the Natives lived in, but I wanted to know where was the bathroom in there?


The second part of the museum was all about the history of Lake County. There were many things for us kiddos to explore. This was a neat boat that you could take a pretend ride through the Lotus Beds while sitting back enjoying a nice picnic. Amelia and I had fun jumping and climbing all over the boat. Amelia thought it was a lot of fun to dump the food and plates on the floor of the boat. Don't worry I helped clean up the mess!

We had a wonderful Saturday just hanging out with the family. For starting the day with no plans (for once), we ended up doing a bunch of fun things. After the museum, Daddy took us out to eat at a restaurant that was over looking the lake. Then, we headed home to take a much needed rest. When we woke up, we got ready to head to Nana and Papa Bob's house for dinner, to see them before they take their trip to Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia.
Wow, we were totally exhausted by the end of the day!!!