Natural History Museum, Part Five

 Many of the carvings on display in the Pacific Peoples room were impressive. It takes a lot of patience and skill to carve such things.

 Masks seem to be a big thing in older cultures. I am sure there must be a spiritual reason for that.

 After all the animals from earlier in the day, then the human histories, it was time to go way back even further, to the dinosaurs.

 This one was actually friendly and wasn't trying to bite Mr Duffy.

 So up to the fourth floor we went to the prehistoric times.

 I was hoping to see life-like models of dinosaurs, but they were all skeletons. That's okay, there was still a lot to learn, but it would have been nice to see what some of them looked like with their skin and all their bones intact.

 I think they don't look as scary without their skins.

 This wall feature was cool because it was a timeline of which dinosaurs lived during which era.

 Mr Duffy wants something like this on his bedroom wall. I think it would be neat to have, but we will probably have to settle for a paper poster.

 This guy was intimidating.

 After exploring the dinosaurs, we wanted to head towards the planetarium. Mr Duffy loves all things science, and he was having a great time at the museum, but he was eager to check out the space stuff. On our way, we passed this giant stone.

 I liked this temple. It reminded me of Indiana Jones.

 We made it to the planetarium after some confusion as to which elevators led where.

 I liked how these infographics compared sizes of planets to each other, and other things.

 This bubble had microscopic fish or something in it. Life on other planets?

 There was a room about geology, rocks, and earthquakes. One of the interactive exhibits encouraged visitors to jump on a pad, and it would record the movement on a seismograph, which is an instrument that is used to measure earthquakes.

 I wanted to crack open some of these rocks to see if they were geodes. Imagine how shiny it would be if this rock had a crystal inside.

 The petrified tree they had here made me think about the one that is in Disneyland.

 Is technology bringing us closer to being able to prepare for the big one?

And we came to the end of our day. We stayed until the announcement came that the museum had closed for the day. We saw so much stuff and probably only really saw half of what we could have. This is on our list of things to revisit in the future.

Mr Duffy and I were exhausted by now, our heads full of new information and our bellies empty. So it was back to the hotel for room service.