"A Day at the Museum"

My parents always made sure we had fun adventures when we were younger.  Whether it was at the beach, Yosemite, Irvine park, the Big Bear cabin, we were always exploring and learning something new.  I want to instill this yearning for adventure in my kids as well.  That's why we took my kids for the first time to one of our family's favorite museums, The Los Angeles Natural History Museum  .  It has been a while since I have been there and it has not changed one bit!  My favorite part of the museum is the Habitat Halls that show African and North American mammals in their natural environments.  The kids were in awe of the huge elephants that were right before their eyes.  The kids loved the Discovery center.  (This wasn't there when I was young.)  The focus of the center is hands-on interactive learning. There were terrariums filled with live insects, reptiles and amphibians (yuck!)  We also played "Paleontologists" and dug in the “dig pit” where the kids excavated fossils.  It was so great to see my kids enjoy the museum as much as I did when I was little.  And I am glad my mom and sister Marie were there to witness it too.