Out and About

I’m on vacation this week.  We decided to stay home and take day trips to nearby attractions we’ve always wanted to visit.  We tried this a couple years ago with poor results.  This time I’m determined we’ll leave the house and do fun things.

We took our first outing to Fossil Park in Sylvania, Ohio.  People from all over the world come to this site to dig for fossils.  The Toledo Blade published a full-page article in the Sunday paper that you can read here.  Sitting on the ground sifting through dirt and rock for fossils from one of the “zoic” ages didn’t sound like fun, but it was.  The dads were in little boy heaven playing in all that dirt.  Here’s some of what we found.

 

I’m sure we’ll be doing that again soon.

For our second daytrip we visited the Museum of Natural History on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The coolest part was seeing the same fossils we’d dug up the day before on display.  Some displays helped us identify the things we’d found.  We expected a much smaller museum than three floors of exhibits.  Like any good quilter, I went crazy over the ceiling tiles in the main entrance.

Both activities were free, although the museum did have a donation box at the door.  Today we plan to stay home and relax, so maybe I’ll get some sewing time in.

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