One of the fun things we got to do while we were in Pittsburgh was a visit to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. My parents and grandparents would take me and my siblings there when we would go visit Gigi and Pappy and we always loved it. So Rob and I thought it would be a great idea to take the girls to the museum as well.
It was a blast!! They enjoyed all the exhibits-even the architecture one Rob wanted to see. This visit was really special to Gwen though. She has always had a huge interest in dinosaurs, so the dinosaur exhibit was amazing for her. Before we entered the area with all the bones, there is a room with a huge window (you can see it behind Gwen in the photo below) where the paleontologists do their work and you can watch them. Gwen was so thrilled to see this, and it just strengthened her desire to work hard to be a paleontologist.
They all had a lot of fun looking at the dinosaur bones (Gwen was pretending to look scared in her picture).
They had an awesome interactive area where they gave the kids goggles and real equipment that a paleontologist would use and they let the kids dig for their own dinosaur bones. The girls loved that area and didn't want to leave, especially Gwen.
They had other fun things as well...animal exhibits, gemstones, an elevator to the center of the earth, a bug exhibit, mummies, and so many other awesome things that the girls just loved. I was even able to get Grace and Gwen to sit in front of the giant alligator replicas, though Grace was pretty hesitant about it, and Georgia flat out refused.
The girls really liked the x-ray table as well, where they had a whole lot of different x-rays of all the different bones in the human body. Gwen had to show us the x-ray of an arm, and point out the spot on the elbow where she had broken her own arm.
It was so much fun taking our kids to a place that I had always enjoyed as a child, and getting to relive so many wonderful memories that I have. Hopefully we will be able to go back sometime soon, and I look forward to visiting other places that Rob and I have been to in the past and share in the joy and excitement of our own children experiencing and making memories in places that he and I love so much.
