Greensboro SciQuarium

We woke up on Saturday after the power outage with still left over snow. What were we going to do? Well, I hope the museum is open! We packed up and left for Greensboro. It's only about 25 minutes from us to this museum. They said they opened at 9, and we got there closer to 10 only for them to say that they were opening at 11 because they were still missing a few things due to the power outage. Oh, and the zoo part was closed that day too. LAME. Especially because I heard they had a petting part of the zoo which I knew Addilyn would die for. Anyway, we walked down to the lake nearby and played in the snow/playground. In the picture below, Scott slid and got stuck. I wish it was video because it was hysterical.

Now, I have to preface this. It was a neat little museum. However, since we have already been to the massive ones in Raleigh and those are free, we were a bit disappointed at how small and $$ it was. And for the fact that it wasn't entirely open. Nevertheless we still had a good time.

The had a featured exhibit which was the dinosaurs and this T-Rex. They had lots of fossils and rocks (snooze). Then they had a body section and they had some interesting things, but several of the gadgets didn't even work. Bummer.

rarrr

Heading into the aquarium. They had a few cool exhibits. The tank was pretty cool. They also had a pool that you could pet the rays if you could reach them. Addilyn finally got psyched up to pet one but they were way to deep and she would have been head in to get them. But I touched them and they felt pretty cool.

The best by far was the penguins. There was one penguin that played in the water the entire time and was interacting with us. It was so cool! Addi loved it! (there's a short video below)

Then we went to one of their learning rooms where they did a fun class for the kids. This guy talked about meerkats. Some of the special effects were really cool. They had footage of real meerkats and they put fake mouths on them to make them look like they were singing. That was the only really bad effect they had because it was obscenely fake looking! He did these multiple choice questions throughout and had volunteers come down to be the options. Addilyn volunteered! She was awesome! See her with the pink boots? ;)

The last thing we did was the kids section. Levi loved getting out and moving around finally. He had been restrained in the stroller or in our arms the whole time. He was itching to get out.

This was so cute. Levi mad a friend! The boy was so sweet to Levi. He was giving him cars to play with and was playing with him. Oh, so sweet. Levi loved it too!