History and Art and Giggles - Oh My!
After the Nina, the Pinta (and no Santa Maria), we visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It may sound dry and boring, but I reminded our kids (and myself) that the "Night at The Museum" movies took place in a Museum of Natural History. (Here's the boy measuring a dinosaur footprint. I don't think he was supposed to go in there, but he got there first. What's a mom to do? Snap a picture, then tell him to get out, of course!) Maybe it's because it's the first time all three kids had a long enough attention span and interest enough to make the visit fun. Yep, I think that's it. Our four-year-old big boy was ready to learn some things!! (Last time we went, I chased him around the entire museum. Not fun.) We walked through halls of giant dinosaur skeletons, watched professionals piece together dinosaur bones in their workshop, then practiced archaeology in a kid-friendly zone. We walked through human his...