Museum trip

Yesterday the schools were closed for voting, so we took advantage of the time off as a family and took a trip to the city to visit some museums. Miles has been asking for several months to go to the dinosaur museum, so when we told him we were going, he nearly jumped out of his skin with excitement.

As usual, one of the favorite parts of the day is the train ride in and out of the city.

Being in the tunnels is especially exciting:

Our first stop was the dinosaur museum, we saw the dinosaurs, then a whole lot of other animals. This museum has a butterfly exhibit where you can go into the butterfly habitat. We did this yesterday, and it was great. There are hundreds of butterflies flying all around you, landing next to you and sometimes on you. The boys were totally entranced.
One landed on Quincy's forehead, but flew away too quick for a picture. Here is one that landed on Mike's pantleg:
And Miles kept putting his hand very still right next to the butterflies, hoping they would sit on his hand:

And a quick video clip that shows a few of the butterflies flying around. If you look at the young boys head you can see a butterfly sitting on his head.

Next up was the insect room, Miles got to hold a big green caterpillar:

After that was the 'train museum' where the boys got to see some pretty big trains, old cars, model ships and got a chance to try their hand at some kid level science experiments:
We finished in the 'train museum' much sooner than we planned, so we then onto what Miles and Quincy call the 'rocketship museum'. Among other things, they both got to sit in a real plane and work the controls:
After a full day of dinosaurs, butterflies, bugs, trains, airplanes and rocketships, Quincy was worn out.

It was a great day and the boys are already asking to go back to the museums.