Natural History Museum

Wednesday morning I woke up and thought, what the heck are we going to do all day? I have a book that lists all the museums and such in Maricopa County (with coupons) and so I pulled it out. I had to decide between the Natural History Museum or the Museum for Youth. The deciding factor was definitely the Mars exhibit at the NHM.
So we loaded up and headed to the museum. Ryan wasn't excited because he wanted to go see the sting rays. I was worried that they wouldn't find the museum fun, but we had a great time.
This statue got them excited to go inside.

A T-Rex! Everyone loves the t-rex. The Hall of Dinosaurs had maybe 10-15 dinos. They were way cool. There was a volunteer that had fossils you could touch (like a raptor claw).

An actual Mars rover on loan from NASA. It was neat to see how big it is. They also had lots of experiments set up to show what life on Mars is like. There were 2 more rovers too.

We stumbled upon the activities room where there were puzzles, books, coloring pages, etc.

The battery was low on the camera so we didn't take as many pictures as we should have. Alex took this of the ancient shark.

And Ryan took this one of the mastodon.

We stayed for nearly 2 hours and had a great time exploring. There were lots of exhibits including panning for gold, Elvis the alligator, flash flood waterfall, geology, and Arizona movies. I recommend it for your summer vacation.