natural history museum

Today Granny Tina and I ventured into the city again to take the boys to the Natural History Museum for the first time. It was a great morning out and the boys really enjoyed their visit. Here is the elephant in the rotunda - the boys loved walking around the elephant and hearing all the animal noises.

Next was our main reason for going to the museum - the dinosaur fossils. Cameron and Jamie were just amazed at all the dinosaurs. We had just watched an episode of Diego and Dinosaurs where Diego, Dora and Alicia were in a dinosaur museum so going to the real thing was a major adventure for the boys. They loved the triceratops and wanted Granny and me to read the names of every single dinosaur we went past. Cameron was particularly interested in which ones were "meat eaters" and which other dinosaurs would be eaten!
The museum also has a really cool place called the Insect Zoo. After lunch we went to look at all the insects and Cameron and Jamie got to touch an Australian stick insect - see below. Granny and I left it up to the boys to be adventurous insect explorers.
Cameron also loved the tree leaf ants because you could see them walking in a line carrying pieces of leaves.

All in all, a very educational and fun morning visit!