Our Field Trip to the North Museum in Lancaster, PA

We haven't had a field trip in a while, so when Daddy had to go to Lancaster for a pastor conference, we decided to tag along and spend the morning at the North Museum. I remembered the museum from grade school field trips, even though I hadn't been there in probably twenty years!

The kids loved the Discovery Room. Well, the younger three did. It was a little too young for Michael.
Katie Grace enjoyed the microscope.

The mural was fun, too, although Nicholas sort of missed the point and didn't put the animals in their habitats. He was going for the silliest placement possible!

Here is Katie Grace and Nicholas enjoyed a seashell discovery box. We also worked through a Native American box together. It was hard to believe we were handling objects that were hundreds of years old!

Nicholas's favorite part-- the dinosaur!

One of the reasons I wanted to go is they have a display about Pennsylvania Native Americans. Unfortunately, it's hard to find good, accurate information. The children enjoyed searching for petroglyphs.

Nicholas and Katie Grace enjoyed trying to grind corn.

Daniel mostly enjoyed climbing on things.

There was an "Arctic Adventure" exhibit when we were there.

Nicholas really liked the "moon rocks". I don't think they were actually moon rocks, but couldn't convince him otherwise.

Michael liked the star finder. We were really disappointed the planetarium wasn't running that day.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Blech! This was definitely the grossest thing in the live animal room.

Nicholas was fascinated by the turtle in his tank.