Museum of Natural History

On one of last days of our trip, we went to…

Yup. We suuuure did.

Dum dum, you bring me gum gum?

Moon rock!

A rock rainbow :)

The world’s largest flawless quartz sphere. (crystal ball)

That’s the Hope Diamond! I had never heard of it, but apparently it’s really famous or something. :)

Biiiiig fish. See the little fish in his belly?

Of course, it said that he was millions of years old, and we know that’s not true. But it was kind of fun to wonder if he was fossilized in the Flood…?

Dinosaurs! :)

Rawr.

It’s Rexy! :D

That’s us, screaming at Rexy. :)

Methinks that’s real! It was in a big glass case, after all.

Fishies.

That is a big turtle.

And that is a HUGE sloth!

Yes, a sloth!! I’m kinda glad they’re extinct…

And that is a HUGE armadillo!!

That’s a HUGE mammoth!

And, you guessed it, that’s a huge elk with HUGE antlers!

It’s kind of hard to tell how long this squid is, but it was really long, and it has shrunk because it was in a preservative. It used to be 36 feet long!

30. 6. feet. That’s HUGE! :)

Good advice.

That, my friends, is the real mouth of a giant great white shark. A GIANT great white shark, which is now extinct, thankfully. And you thought great white sharks were big!

That’s the tooth of today’s great white shark compared to the tooth of the GIANT great white shark! This thing was MASSIVE!

Look how tiny the boys are compared to it! Yeesh! I’d never, ever go swimming in the ocean if this thing was still alive.

Everything in this museum was so interesting, but we were surrounded by things like this:

And this:

And this:

This is the 4 inch long animal they say EVERY MAMMAL, including humans, evolved from. Really? How can they believe that?

We knew none of that was true, but it would have been cool to know how old everything really was. We just used this time in the museum to marvel at God’s magnificent creation. :)