Loving the Perot Museum

We joined the Perot Museum of Nature and Science right when it opened. It was great a first, but they needed to work out a few kinks that first year, exhibits were getting worn out, it was too crowded and hard to get around.

I didn't renew our membership, but then as summer came around I knew we needed something indoors since the zoo and the Arboretum would be way too hot. We has cousins planning to visit in July so I figured I'd renew our membership before they arrived.

I'm so glad I did. We've been a ton of times this summer and the kids really love it. On our last visit:

We got to dig for dinosaur bones at an example excavation site.

We played music

I even bribed the kids to be in a picture with me, since I'm usually the one taking the pic

For taking a picture I let them get little dinosaur excavation kits.

Serious excavation

Dino prize

We saw a 3D movie about butterflies and liked it so much we went back the next day with Daddy and GiGi to see the one about pandas. (The pandas were cute, butterflies are awesome in 3D)

Now the museum has found a mammoth and you can watch the dig site live. So cool. The kids are so excited they want to help raise money to "bring the mammoth home!"

Way to go Perot.