Cranbrook Science and Art Museum

Another one of our last excursions before school started was to the Cranbrook Science and Art Museums. The Science Museum was really neat and we could have stayed a lot longer. One of the girls favorite was "Stega" as they named her.

 

The big T-Rex skeleton was scary enough to keep Myka and Kyla a little nervous until we were well away from it.

 

This was kind of a neat display showing what Detroit would look like when the glacier period returns.

 

She's got the whole world in her hands! Although, Myka had no idea of what it really was, it was fun to play with.

 

Here the girls are learning that just how you dress can say alot about you, even though you are the same person inside. We asked the girls what they would like to dress like and they didn't make the choices that we would have liked the most.

 

Best buddies, Myka and Rachel, working on a puzzle together. They had a lot of really neat things for the kids to do in one area.

 

Here we are learning about how the rings in a tree can take us a long way back in history. I think this one was around 700 years old or so.

 

Nora and Kyla playing scientists. I don't think they have ever had a chance to use a microscope before. They were really interested in all the slides and finding out what they were.

 

All the girls working on a experiment in motion. They were supposed to arrange the paddles so when the ping pong came out at the top it would bounce off the paddles and land in the ring at the bottom. Unfortunately, we didn't have the patience to work it all out.

 

Birgitte took a bunch more pictures but we had trouble getting them to me. We had lunch on the tables outside and headed to the Art Museum. We decided we wouldn't go there again. The girls did really well keeping their arms folded the whole time. But it was stressful being in there with that many kids like a time bomb ready to go off at any moment. I guess I am not artsy enough of a person to really appreciate a whole room of 50+ clay pots all done by the same person with slight differences but pretty much the same, very plain pot. We did have a lot of fun running around the gardens checking out the statues and ponds though. We will have to go back (well to the Science Museum) with our hubby's sometime so we can have a little more time to investigate the experiments and displays.