Day at the Museum

After packing a picnic lunch, we drove up and spent the day at a great little museum on the shores of Lake Huron. I had heard good things about it, and after acquiring free passes from a generous neighbour, decided to spend our rainy day indoors enjoying what it had to offer.
Posing with the woodland animal display.
Getting a feel for a glacier (literally -brrrr).

Being silly with the robotic dinosaur exhibit. Of course the robotics were as much if not more intriguing then the dinosaurs themselves, which may launch us in a completely different direction of learning than I had accounted for! :)

The moving "hatching" baby Protoceratops. (left)
Tara trying on the horn for the build your own dinosaur

My hopes for this visit, was that the girls would come away with a bit more knowledge on history -pre-man.

There was mention of the presentation of three theories of creation (the Anishnabe/Odawa, Judeo-Christian and Big Bang theory.), which I was hoping would be laid out together in some way, but that was not really the case. With creation, and religion for that matter, we are hoping to present the girls with enough information, that they will feel knowledgeable in creating their own opinion about how the earth was formed and how they would like to live their life upon it.

The other exhibits we enjoyed included the outdoor log cabin and schoolhouse, the DNA sculpture made from a chain (try explaining DNA and genes to a 5 and 6 year old over lunch!), and the rug hooking exhibit.

In all we spent about 5 hours exploring, and let me tell you how fantastic it is to be the only ones in a museum on a rainy Monday, free to explore at will!

Of course we had to spend a bit of time in the car being silly with Dad and munching on snacks, and get a quick glimpse of the waves on the lake before heading home.