We got late start, but by noon we were filled full with lunch and then launched into outer space. The boys typically go to the space exhibit first. And then the bugs. There are so many creepy, yet fascinating bugs on this planet. I'm glad they are in cages when I see them.
The boys got a serious kick out of feeding time for the naked mole rats. In their series of tubes to travel, there were carrots, what looked like potatoes, and a toilet paper roll. The rats were determined to pull the toilet paper roll through their tube. The pulling rat get trampled by the others as they hustled by and over straight through the toilet paper roll to get some more carrots. Then trampled again as the carrots traveled back to the preferred eating spots. It was quite comical. They probably could've watched it all day.
We missed the feeding time of the boa constrictor, which I thought would be seriously cool. (If a little grotesque.) The boys love snakes, bugs, strange creatures of all sorts. Of course they do. Luckily, I don't mind them either if they are, in fact, in heavily guarded and locked cages.
I will not, for the record, never go camping in Australia. They have the freakiest, most massive bugs there I've ever seen. The science museum there was filled with bugs the size of my head. No thanks. I'm sure it's beautiful, but I'll stay in a hotel.
The boys do always want to go see the butterflies. They are so effortless and fascinating. (That is, of course, after they go through what must be a strange and uncomfortable metamorphosis... analogy for our lives too... but anyway.) The butterflies WOW! And so do the koi.
We did all the puzzles and played a game of big chess. I still don't know how to get a farmer, his chicken, a fox, and corn across a river without each thing eating the other. Google didn't even help me with that one. I found other versions of the game, but no answers. If YOU know the answer to the "Crossing the River" game, please enlighten me. The boys, the other random kids who tried it, and I am stumped.
