Andrew the Archaeologist

Normally, crowds don't bother me. Most toddler places are always going to have tons of visitors on the weekend and why should that stop us from letting our kid enjoy them? Derek, on the other hand, does lose patience a bit quicker with big crowds, but I digress.

The Great Lakes Science Center was offering free admission on Saturday and I was excited to save the $40 fee for the 3 of us and enjoy a fun couple of hours with Drew there. After some breakfast, we made the drive to downtown but literally both gasped at the site once we pulled up. There was a line wrapping around the building with hundreds of people waiting to get in and parking looked like it was an absolute madhouse. Derek and I made a snap decision to punt the idea and head over to the Natural History Museum where we wouldn't have to be squished in like sardines. Since all of Cleveland was at the Science Center, we basically had the museum to ourselves and it was great!

I know it's a dark picture, but how awesome is this face?

Drew making our dinosaurs kiss. How sweet is that? There was a kid slamming dinosaurs around and trying to rip their heads off next to us and here's my kid making them gently smooch. I melt.

They even have this kids area where fake bones are buried in the sand and you have to uncover them with brushes. Drew could have spent hours doing this.

Interesting fact for the day; my mother actually studied archaeology at the University of Kansas, where almost everyone in our family attended! I know it's a bit different than searching for dinosaur bones (ie: searching for human things, but still... kinda the same concept). She graduated with a degree in psychology, but was only a couple classes away from double majoring in archaeology as well. She even spent a couple of months at a site in Missouri in the heat of the summer digging away at the soil trying to find pieces of anything from prehistoric Indian days. Random right? But such a cool piece of my family history if I do say so myself!