A Museum

We have a museum pass that lets us get into over 250 different museums for free. So we made sure that we went to the museum in Cincinnati that worked with our pass. It was a good museum. I think we would have been disappointed if we had to pay to get in, but since we got in for free it was a GREAT museum!

Right at the beginning we found some bug related items. Which had to be documented to show the Bug Hero. He was missed dearly by the children. We explained that Bug Hero was an expert on bugs. And after explaining what an expert is, we asked them what I, the Math Hero, was an expert in. After a few thoughtful moments, the Friendly Hero said, "Um, Children?" And he was right.

There was a fake cave exhibit. It was a section of the museum that was a cave, like two or three stories of walking around, tight sections, a waterfall, a river, stairs up and down, stuffed rats, a spelunker (reminding us of cave safety), darkness, ac blowing to make it colder, stalactites, and stalagmites. I thought it was really cool. The boys were very hesitant. There were two paths, and we took the easier path first and they didn't like it until the end. I then asked Friendly Hero what type of animals lived in caves and his eyes lit up, and he nearly yelled "DRAGONS!!" and Peaceful Hero added that they lived there because they don't like the light. And they raced around to the start and we did the easy path two more times at top speed to be like a dragon. They didn't want to do the other level, but My cousin and I did, so we led them down the steps and they were very careful. The Peaceful Hero was happy as long as my cousin carried him. I carried the Hopeful Hero. And the Friendly Hero was quite upset that his flip-flops got wet in the splash of the waterfall. He leads a difficult life.

There was a live bat demonstration. We watched part of it, before interest was lost. Hopeful Hero loved pointing at the bats.

 There was a fake glacier. I didn't know that the Cincinnati Valley was formed by a glacier. But it was, and we got to walk through a fake one. It was really noisy. And this is Friendly Hero's "normal face." The other option is tongue out.

 Here is the outside of Museum Station. There are about four or five museums here. But we only had the pass to one of them. But it was a perfect way to spend the morning.

 Peaceful Hero was a little bit grumpy about the bright light and that lunch was delayed. (And we can't really blame that...)