Playing Tourist in Our City

The first weekend in August we went to several museums. On Sunday we went to a special caterpillar exhibition at the Museum of Science. They had live caterpillars on branches or plants, most without any cages, so visitors could get a close look. We explored the museum for a while, as well. Then on Monday I met up with a friend from high school whom I haven't seen since her wedding maybe a dozen years ago. We introduced our kids to each other, and our 4 and 3 year olds really hit it off, as did the 1 year olds, who are only a few weeks apart. We toured the USS Constitution Museum, which has a lot of great hands on activities for the younger set, and then part of the Freedom Trail before the young ones were done.

Sunday - Museum of Science

 Looking at the live caterpillars close up

Watching a caterpillar molt in real time

 Matt holding a caterpillar

Matt holding a pupa

Andy exploring the train exhibit

Matt ready for liftoff

Checking out the triceratops

Andy and the T Rex (rawr rawr!)

Andy being a busy little beaver

Matt flapping his wings in the robin's nest

Sleeping bird

Goofy Andy

Andy trying on the beekeeper's helmet

Matt crawling into the honeycomb

Matt being the beekeeper

Andy studying the balls "floating" in mid-air

Matt studying the rock specimen

Playing with the light wall

Matt has a question about the seastar

Going for a boat ride on the Charles

Matt learning about the planets

Monday - The Freedom Trail

USS Constitution Museum

Matt, his new buddy, and Andy building a boat

Andy seems to enjoy scrubbing the deck

Matt and Andy playing with a ship outside the "recruitment office"

Old North Church

Matt on the lions outside of the gift shop

The Paul Revere House

Me with two tired and hungry kids

Lunch!

We stopped for some quick slices of pizza. They sure tasted good after all of our playing and walking! Matt ate basically a whole slice (equivalent to 1/4 a pizza) by himself, and Andy did a pretty good number on another slice.