Eclectic Parent

Another trip to our favorite museum. This time we went into all the special exhibits. We started at The Horse. It started with the evolution of horses; I hadn’t known there had been horses 50 million years ago or that they had actually originated in North America. The exhibit also had quite a bit of art with horses (Grecian urns with explanations of how they think the myth of centaurs began), ancient armor for horses, and contemporary toys. Not quite as cool as last year’s myth exhibit, but the old horse armor and almost life-size terra cotta horse were very cool.

Then we headed to Lizards and Snakes Alive. Having just seen the frogs, it was interesting to see the different lizards and snakes - brightly colored to dull, very small to extremely large. The most strange to me were the ones that had tails that came, not to a point, to a widening circle like a beaver’s. The kids like the very brightly colored lizards, the ones able to crawl straight up the glass and the huge constrictor snakes, which make them think of Harry Potter when the glass disappears at the zoo.

We wandered though the Hall of Meteorites and Gems & Minerals next. That was especially fun since so many of them are labeled as being from Arizona. B walked through classifying them by how pretty they were. Everyone else liked the meteorites. Wile there was a general request for the planetarium, everyone was fading and we were trying to beat the traffic out of Manhattan. So home again, home again . . .