Sharp's Travels

Today we were at the National Museum of Natural History. When you enter there is an eight-ton, 13ft tall African bush elephant. Hugh!
We went to the Butterfly Pavilion first. I knew it would be warm in there and I didn’t bring a jacket today and I was cold. To our surprise on Tuesdays the exhibit is free. There were hundreds of butterflies in the Pavilion. One landed on Gay’s shirt and stayed there quite a while. You had to be careful where you stepped, the butterflies were landing on the walkway in front of us. They were all so colorful.
We went back downstairs and picked up our tickets for the 3-D IMAX show on Dinosaurs and another 3-D show on Wild Ocean.
We had time to check out the Ocean Hall before our movies. Some of the many fascination exhibits were a full-scale model of a North Atlantic Shale and a 1,500 gallon aquarium featuring a live Indo-Pacific coral reef ecosystem.
We took in our two 40 minute movies and then went for lunch at the café.
We went through the Gems and Minerals. We saw the 45.5 carat Hope Diamond. WOW!
We checked out the Dinosaur Hall, the gigantic fossilized bone of all those creatures. There were lots of different ones on display.
We looked at all the mammals and watched a gentleman in the lab work at getting fossils out of stone.
We spent the whole day in the Museum of National History and by 3:30 pm we were ready to start our trip home.
Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: Natural History Museum