Vikings!

Since Marina is out of school, I took today off of work to spend with her. We haven’t seen the Viking exhibit at the museum, so we decided to check it out today. When we arrived at the museum we got our tickets to see the exhibit right away.

The Viking exhibit didn’t appeal to Marina as much as past ones have. She checked out the touch screens and a few of the more interactive parts, but in general she did not show much interest in the exhibit until we reached the gift shop.

By this time we were both hungry, so we went to the restaurant to eat. After lunch, we went through the Gems and Minerals exhibit. Marina liked the gems part best, especially the aquamarines – her birthstone.

Once we were finished looking at the gems, we were ready to leave. Unfortunately, it was raining pretty hard. So we decided to go back into the museum. This time we looked into the new Family Exploration Center. It was a large room with a screen mounted high on one wall. When Marina stood in front of the screen images appeared. At first a storm formed with lightning. Then dolphins popped out of the floor, followed by a rhinoceros, a cheetah and dinosaurs. Finally, an astronaut bounded across the screen. Marina played with this set up for about half an hour. By then the rain had stopped and we went home.