Long Time No Blog

Well, it's been about a month since we last posted anything on here. I apologize for our slacking, but we truly haven't been doing anything exciting that would warrant a post! It's been a slow January! Today we were tired of feeling cooped up and went downtown to the Indiana State Museum with the girls. We'd been to weddings and other receptions there, but never actually visited the exhibits. In fact, we didn't really even know what to expect.....well, we were pleasantly suprised. It is a fabulous museum! I get so excited when we "find" things like this in our own backyard! The museum would be best with kids a little older than ours - 10 or 12ish - but we were still very impressed. The first level has tons of fossils and exhibits on the earth's layers. It also has an early americans section. The second level deals with early Indiana and how it first gained statehood. It also has a ton of other cool things, like early clothes, cars, and communication equipment. Then the top floor is all about Indiana's animals and preserving the natural habitats of those animals. To keep the kids interested we also took part in the Barbie Safari that they had going on - you had to find various Barbies throughout the museum and answer questions. Then they got a prize at the end if they answered all of the questions properly. At the end of our visit we had lunch at the LS Ayres Tea Room, which was another real treat. We'll definitely be back!