Presidents week - part deux

Saturday: We woke early. Rachel and Becky wanted to meet us between 9-9:30am at the museum so we got up before 6 and left Sacramento at 7. We only stopped once(for starbucks)and we made good time. I think we were going over the Bay Bridge at 9am. We made it to the museum before 9:30--people were already going in(it wasnt supposed to open until 9:30.

The museum was super busy! I figured there were to be many people(because of the holiday) --but there were many, many people.
We were there first for a couple hours before my sisters arrived..so we went through the 'rainforest' globe. Very cool.
The whole museum was very fun. -I would like to go back when it's not as busy(don't know if that's possible). I'm already planning another trip. I would like to go back and be frugal...take lunches and breakfast rolls instead of eating out for each meal. The parking was the most...I don't know how to avoid that unless we use the busses. Every hotel charges for parking also. Our hotel was only 20 for the day but Becky paid (i think) 40?45? Plus we paid 35parking for the museum. It just evened out the discounted price we paid for the room.

The kids had lots of fun. The aquarium part was alot like the monterey aquarium. There were lots of different fish to see. The kids touched starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumber...



The natural history part of the museum had dinosaur bones, a Sabertooth tigers scull w/ teeth, Mammoth teeth.

Riley carried this hippo around all day. Twice we had to go back to the last area we had been to retreive the lost hippo...as many times as we lost hippo...it actually made it home with us.(It's in most of the pictures we took)




Becky and Tim didnt stay very long at the Museum...Becky had been sick. William was actually still sick too. We stayed the whole day until closing. The last thing we did was to see the 3d bug movie

We left Rachel, Nicole and lil Rachel..they were driving home, and we went to find our hotel.