The Balboa Park Series

The Natural History Museum and Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

We recently found out that select museums at Balboa Park are FREE to San Diego County Residents! WOOT!

So can you guess what we did today?

Yep! We were off to get cultured and edumacated :)


First stop: The Natural History Museum. Their main exhibit downstairs we precious gems and stones. SO cool. Gotta love ginormous necklaces and earrings DRIPPING with jewels! We saw gold and quartz and opal and it was all very pretty. But flash photography was not allowed and I don't take good pictures without the flash. So. Moving on.

Then came the sharks and dinosaurs!

John's friend, the very large shark

AHH!

RAAWR!!
The dinosaur actually moved by the way...it was kinda creepy when it's eyes twitched!

After the natural history museum, we made our way to the science center and stopped by the lovely fountain

The science center was totally hands on and way fun! There were kids EVERYWHERE as it seems everyone else already knew about residents free Tuesday, but we still managed to have turns on all the interesting things to do there.

John was creating air currents

The picture isn't that great, but it was a tornado...

We tried building an arch...I broke it the first time, but here, we were successful!
Carefully standing up the blocks...

Ta da!

Yay! We did it! It was actually really hard!

Then we went over to this large area where everyone was making buildings and structures out of little wooden blocks. All the blocks were the same size and long and thin. On display they had some awesome things people had built:

The castle was the coolest for sure, so we tried our hand at making a tower like the one on the bottom left

Eek! The standing up part was hard!

Here is the inside of our creation
Not too bad, huh? Yeah, we know it's a little wobbly and totally leaning, but hey, we were pretty proud of ourselves :)

So proud of our tower!

Here are some other creations we saw:

A bird?! So cool!

After the science center, we walked around the rose gardens. So pretty!



After that, we were very sleepy (we had worked at the temple for Memorial day from 6:30am to 1:30pm - and we're STILL tired!) and came home. But now John is at class. Hope he stays awake!