Museum Adventure

Kyle and Grant had MLK off, so we went on a family trip to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.  It was our first time there, and it made me so proud to be a resident of NC!  Love this state and that museum!
 

The whale bone collection was incredible:
 

More whale viewing:
 

Checking out some frogs and carnivorous plants:
 

Next time I'll have to write down the name of this creature and take more pictures, because this was Kyle's and my favorite exhibit.  It was some sort of gigantic tree-eating beaver/armadillo type mammal that was native to North Carolina millions of years ago.  It sort of blew our minds that this giant creature had existed and we had never heard of it and knew nothing about it (...and still don't know it's name, doh! **Update! Kyle found the name: "Megatherium" aka Giant Ground Sloth**).
 

This dinosaur atrium was another great room (I had to be sneaky about taking Grant's picture--he'd given me explicit instructions on the drive over not to take his picture).
 

 

 

Looking down on the dino room:
 

Checking out some giant germs.  Grant was concerned these might make him sick.
 

Watching a scientist at work:

Afterwards, we caught the end of the MLK parade and went to Beasley's for chicken & waffles.  Grant's favorite part of the trip was watching a silent movie about the Titanic and when we asked Hayes about his favorite part of the day: "Waffles!"