April 26 - Museum of Life and Science

Okay peeps, I'm on my last spring break post and I've saved the best for last: Museum of Life and Science. This museum, located in Durham, NC (http://lifeandscience.org/) can be defined in one word: perfection. We didn't even see the inside of the museum and I'm already planning to send the kids there for a week of summer camp when they are older (heads up Greg and Jill..). Yes, it was that fabulous!! 

Dinosaur Trail: the kids climbed and slid down this bad boy, and then we went for a nature walk seeing other life size replicas. 

Digging for fossils: kids, dirt, and shovels-always a good combination

 Train Ride

Did I mention they have BEARS at this place? And WOLVES?! Look at this beautiful walkway to their habitats. I can only imagine how gorgeous it is during the fall.

There is a black bear in the far back:

Andrew licking Greg's head-just too funny to leave out!

Learning about wind by navigating sailboats

Air cannons

Butterfly rainforest - Julia is standing VERY still

A rare one of the mom's!

Trampoline fun! The first video is Victoria (about 3.5min) and the next is Julia and Andrew (about 7min). Luke was too small. 

Alpacas Fun

Looks like a blast, right? I didn't even capture everything we did-there was an outdoor farm area with pigs and goats, a big amphibian exhibit, and a huge seed tower the kids played with-simply a perfect afternoon!! And we capped off this perfect day with a trip to Moe's!

Greg, Jill, Victoria and Andrew-we had a blast and can't wait for more fun adventures with you. The only way our week could have been more fab is if we saw Aunt Katherine and her family, but unfortunately she threw her back out.

Toodles!