Natural History Museum

October is kids get in free month. So Thursday's are the only day of the week that we can take advantage. The first Thursday we went to a Children's Museum in Escondido, and I didn't take any pictures. It was fun but small. 

Today, we went to the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park. Kaylee calls it the dinosaur museum but it offers a lot more than dinosaurs.  Here is what we learned from the mouth of Kaylee:

"Ankylosaurs has spikes for protection."

"Mammoths were scary because they are really big, bigger than humans. I like learning about how they were hunted. (Cornered them or trapped them in a hole and speared them to death.) I  like elephants better. I like sabertooth better than the mammoth."

"Earthquake faults move sliding against one another, one earth goes under another earth and there are volcanos, or plates pull apart."

"My favorite picture (in the Nature Photography exhibit) was the grasshopper on a purple flower, and I voted for it (people's choice category). I don't know when they find out who won. I need to draw that picture. I can't draw the grasshopper, just the purple flower.When do we find out who won? (I reply in December.) Is that Christmas month? (Yes.) We need to go back in December to find out who wins. (Okay.)"

So, that was just some of the wisdom from Kaylee's mouth as we were settling into bed. She also mentioned that finding animals in different exhibits was her favorite part of the museum.  And putting the story of a fossil in correct order was also a favorite. As seen in this picture: 

My favorite part was eating lunch outside and viewing the nature photographs. 

Kaylee also touched a mountain lion's and a bobcat's pelt, and a 3-year old bucks horns.