To celebrate Spring Break, we took a trip to the Grand Rapids Public Museum, which has a temporary exhibit about dinosaurs. The museum was having a special on family memberships, and for just $20 more than we were gonna have to pay to get in one time, we got a one-year membership. Woo-hoo!
Along with our brand-new membership, we got some coupons to ride the carousel. Needless to say, everyone wanted to do that immediately!
Check out that long-legged Lily! Too much taller and her toes will be dragging. And do you think Henry enjoyed his ride?
The dinosaur exhibit was entirely geared toward kids, and our kids had a ball! Lily and Gregory dug through a bin full of dry ric
e to expose dinosaur bones. At right, Henry is checking out one of about a dozen animatronic dinosaurs that were all over the exhibit. That one is a life-sized Albertasaurus. 
There were also lots of crafts and activities for kids, all dinosaur-
themed. A favorite for both kids was a kirugami project - cutting and folding paper to make a dinosaur that could stand up. Gregory started out standing to cut his out, and quickly abandoned that idea and sat down under the table to finish up (of course, right??). And as you can see, Henry lost interest somewhere along the way.
