San Bernardino Museum

Seeing as the San Bernardino Museum is just a few exits away from us on the freeway, we decided that we should go and check it out. Toby had seen that there was going to be a special event on bugs there and so we decided that this would be a fun day to go. I am sorry to say though that we were a bit disappointed. If Makenna had been a little older then she could have enjoyed the bug activities that they had there, but it was all geared for pre-school through elementary aged kids. This was sad for Toby too because he was hoping that it would be a bit more academic. Although Makenna couldn't do the craft projects, she had a great time running around on the grass area.

They had an animal petting/touching area at the museum. Makenna liked watching the turtle in the tank and I think it liked her too:-)

Although she liked the turtle, she was terrified, I mean TERRRRRIFIED of the bearded dragon that was in a cage. She actually started crying because she didn't like it. Hmm...I guess that nixes Toby's idea of ever having a bearded dragon.

After seeing the "scary" animals we went into the main part of the museum. If you like to see "stuffed animals", then this is the museum for you. Although this isn't really our thing, we found really hilarious parts of the museum that now I wish I would have taken pictures of. In one of the exhibits it said that there was supposed to be a certain type of mouse, but instead it had one of those sticky mouse traps:-) I guess their other "stuffed" mouse had gotten out and they needed a new one...hehe...sorry, that wasn't nice. I will have to say that I was impressed with Makenna when she saw this exhibit and boldly announced "kitty, meow".

The other really funny part was downstairs where they had basically the evolution of transportation as well as artifacts of the Native Americans of the area. I guess they ran out of space for the transportation, so a 50s style car was parked right in front of a backdrop of tee-pees. I had no idea that those two items went together:-) Makenna could care less about the cars and tee-pees but did enjoy pushing around her stroller.

After seeing those things we just saw a whole floor of "stuffed birds" and their eggs. We didn't have the time that we had expected but oh well...we found some unexpected humor in the museum and got out of the house. I guess that counts for something:-)