Today we slept in. When we did get up we went to the Natural History Museum. Wow! What a place.
First we visited the interesting exhibit about evolution. We learn how animals using natural selection developed physical characteristics which helped them survive-
The white polar bear to blend in to the snow
The long necked giraffe to reach the leaves high in the trees.
There were interesting exhibits showing how humanoids developed and how some strains died off.
We also visited the gems and minerals exhibit where we saw the beautiful Hope diamond and many other pieces of beautiful jewelry.
Also on display were huge gold nuggets –the size of a pear, and many other exhibits of gold and other precious metals.
There was a lot more to see and grandpa wanted us to check out the bones section, but we were just zombies, so we headed home to rest our brains.
I forgot to tell about the visit to the butterfly Pavilion. Here we got to go into a room that was filled with small gardens full of all kinds of exotic butterflies. There were lots of orange and black ones-- not monarchs though – and big yellow swallowtails and huge bright turquoise ones. They were fifting around freely and sometimes would land on our clothes or our hands.
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