One moment my 7 and 10-year-old daughters were zoologists searching an African baobab tree for birds, snakes, and bats; then they were paleontologists excavating dinosaur eggs and assembling a Prestosuchos skeleton; and the next thing I knew they were anthropologists…
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As we turned the corner, we caught a glimpse of an enormous white flower in the tree. All of us wondered what could it possibly be? Then we saw more of them in several trees. Luckily, the High Line had…
My 8-year-old-daughter put the marshmallows in the bell jar and turned on the pump to suck out all of the air and create a vacuum. The marshmallows began to expand. Then when she turned off the pump, the marshmallows appeared…
As we turned the corner, we caught a glimpse of the baby. She was fuzzy, gray, and had the cutest little trunk! This was the first time we had ever seen a baby elephant. Priya was with her mother and…
String beans?!? Really? Okay, my daughter took a string bean out of the bowl and eagerly held it up for the 2-toed sloth to eat. The sloth inquisitively looked at her and the string bean before nibbling the vegetable. We…
"It's an hour-long wait from here," said the attendant. Yikes! Thankfully when we showed her our Chicago CityPASS vouchers, she ushered us to a separate Fast Pass lane and in less than 10 minutes we were 103 floors up on…
As we entered the Wet Lab, Anna asked us if we wanted to see what she had in one of her buckets. All of us eagerly said, "Yes!" There was a mischievous look in her eyes as she carefully opened…
Read More Our Very Own Brain Scoop Episode at the Field Museum in Chicago!
Her little fingers moved dexterously as she carefully cut a small circular doorway, inserted a twig stand, and finally glued on a roof. Ta-dah! My daughter finished making a low-cost, eco-friendly bird-house from recycled materials at the Garvies Point Museum…
As we strolled leisurely through the sculpture gardens, we noticed a streak of white on the ground. It turned out to be a 4-foot long peacock tail feather! My daughters ran to grab a free souvenir from their day at…
As we stood in the middle of Big Brook's shallow, gentle freshwater stream in the center of New Jersey, I had a hard time believing that 72 million years ago we would've been standing at the bottom of a sea…
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