"Holiday"

I told Marina today was Labor Day, a holiday. She asked, “For the holiday, can we go to the Museum?” I invited Kyle and Bethany to go with us to the Museum of Nature and Science. They wanted to start looking at the fossils. Marina went through everything pretty quickly, we had trouble keeping up at times. She liked looking at the dinosaurs but she didn’t spend a whole lot of time there.

We took a break for lunch. Then we went to the Gems and Minerals. We got Marina to go through the fake cave this time. She’s always been afraid of it. We liked looking at the rocks, but, once again, moved fairly quickly through them. At one point she decided she was ready to leave. Kyle and I have to chase after her, leaving Bethany behind. She wasn’t too happy about that! We went to Space Odyssey where her speed viewing continued. Until there was an announcement of a show in the Planetarium. So we went in for that. Marina loved looking at the planets, especially Neptune.

We went to look at the animal dioramas. Bethany wanted to look for the elves. We found the ones we could before getting the cheat sheet. Marina was excited to see each one as we pointed it out. Then she’d find other people nearby to show where they were. As we walked out of the animal hall, Marina spotted the Ancient Egypt exhibit. She just took off to go see it. We all followed her over. She’s been interested in Egypt for some time now.

We were all tired when after that, so we headed out. Marina nearly fell asleep in the car. But she’d had a good “holiday.”