Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Visiting the museum

Yesterday my human and her roommate tagged along with me to visit the Arizona Museum of Natural History. I had been there before once with my human but it was nearly a year ago so it was time to check it out again. Plus the roommate wanted to see it, as she is still fairly new to the area.

Because this museum is such a hands-on and kid-friendly place there were of course many little humans running around. Several of them ran up and grabbed me or petted me. Now I'm not complaining none but it did annoy my human because I quickly became very distracted.

A few of the kids were actually afraid of me. This isn't the reaction I usually get because I'm just so darn cute as you all know. One little boy was particularly fearful of me and would try to run away or would squeal when he saw me. I wanted to go over and comfort the child to show him that I'm a good dog, but my human feared it would put the kid in to an outright panic attack, so every time we had to go near the kid my human would pull me in tight to her side and hold the leash taut.

The museum itself hadn't changed much; interesting facts on space and the Earth, evolution and development of species; fossils and dinosaur replicas. Tid-bits about weather here in Phoenix and native plants and animals. There was a new section about the evolution of flight and how dinosaurs evolved feathers and eventually flight. My human loved this area in particular.

The other new exhibit was all about the uses of poop. Yes you read that correctly, it was about poop. How it's made, how nature uses it, which animals make the most, biggest, messiest, smelliest, smallest, and what all the different types looked like. They even had fossilized mammoth droppings. Ya, I felt right at home in there.

We also saw some history of the area from the first mission to the first jail. Actually the silly humans seemed to enjoy the jail cells a bit too much. It was cramped and dark and they were laughing and taking photos. There was also some history on the old west area in this area and the trip ended as the roommate tried her hand at panning for gold in a make-shift river which actually smelled more like a backyard pool than a river but oh well.

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