For March's adventure, we went to the Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah. They have a fantastic exhibit right now called "Toadally Frogs". We got to see live frogs of all kinds (Hayden's favorite part) among history, stories and fun facts about frogs. Their regular exhibits include a mineral exhibit (Miranda's favorite), a dinosaur exhibit (Joey's favorite) and a bugs exhibit (Charissa's favorite) complete with live spiders, scorpions, and centipedes. One thing we loved was the bug brigade brought out some of the bugs for us to see. Joey's favorite animal is a tarantula and they got really close to one that was being held by the bug brigade. We saw some amazing frogs and discovered that most frogs don't sound like you would expect a frog to sound. We heard some that sounded like a door opening and closing, a clicker, and a squeaky shoe. Miranda gave us a demonstration on the types of minerals and how they are made. You would have thought she was being payed by the museum to give tours. It was great. We all had a great time and now we have talked our cub scouts into going for there next pack meeting. They will have fun too. If you would like to see pictures of the adventure, just go to the following link.
http://gallery.me.com/jennamoulton#100047
Jenna! Thanks for posting this about the natural history museum. I'll have to take my boy to that. So, you guys live in Salt Lake?
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We live in Bountiful, actually. We love being close enough to Salt Lake to take advantage of all it offers. I think your boy would have a great time at the museum.
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