Friday, February 25, 2011

Anchorage Museum

As a family this last weekend we went to the Anchorage Museum. They had a really neat cultural display of some items from the bush tribes here. I didn't get any pictures of those because the room was very dark and it was very hard to capture a picture of anything in there. Some of the stuff they had on display were dolls, a parka made of seal, whale, and Polar bear intestines, and nets. There was also fishing boats and baskets. It was neat to look at the similarities and differences that the tribes had.
At the museum they also had an imaginarium which had different science things for the kids to do. We spent the majority of our time there. The kids ran around and tried all of the different things to do. This is Ella sitting on a chair and lifting herself. She had a hard time lifting herself up. Tyler and Nichole looking at the way these different balls would bounce when stacked on top of each other from smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest.Tyler looking at how radio waves work.Nichole looking at the different colors of light.Nate and Ella trying to figure out how the disc is staying up when the air is blowing out.Natalie playing with the floating ball.Natalie blowing a HUGE bubbleThe kids touching all of the sea life. There were star fish, hermit crabs, clams, and other stuff in there. They really liked this part.Tyler and the girls each taking turns trying to enclose themselves in a giant bubbleDoesn't that water look so cold?On Monday we went to go dog sledding but we arrived to late and they wouldn't let us go. When we got home Nate took the kids down to the embankment by the river by our house and tried to build a igloo but they all got cold and came inside.Nichole's legs were sooooo red where the sock ended.

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