The Denver Art and Science Museum

Today we did all of our work and then set out to see a huge museum in Denver that had tons of different exhibits.  We got lost so we were kind of late getting there but dad still wanted to see every exhibit so we went through each one pretty fast.  My favorite exhibit was probably the one about mummies because they actually had mummies there and interesting stories behind them.  One was a rich woman who was mummified and then moved into a man's coffin.  It's unknown how or why it was moved but it might just be that when they sent it they moved it to a man's coffin.  We also went through a temporary exhibit about gold which had different types of gold and different things the gold could make.  Out of all the metals, gold is the one that can be compressed to be the thinnest.  They used to make plane old statues out of rocks and they'd cover it with small strips of gold to make it look like it was made of pure gold.  No jewelry is entirely made out of gold because pure gold would be to soft to make any jewelry with.  There were also tons of other cool facts and there was tons of gold in it.  We also went through the exhibit that had dinosaurs and other creatures that lived at the time.  I learned that catfish can scramble across dry land to get to different bodies of water and this is said to be how creatures got to walking on land.  Eventually they adapted to getting out of the water and were able to stay moist and above water for longer times.  I had never known that catfish could scramble on dry land.  They had video's of some and I thought it was amazing.  When we were out of the museum everyone was happy to be out even though a lot of things in it were fascinating, everyone was tired and hungry, especially me because I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. On our way back we stopped to look at the bison field where there were about 40 of them just roaming around.  It was amazing how much waste they left in the field.  I feel bad for whoever has to clean it up.  An amazing fact about them is that at one time there were as many as 60 million in North America and after being hunted mercilessly and being driven towards the point of extinction there came to be only about 1,000 left.  The sign says that their behavior can be unexpected so we had to stay 3 feet away from the tall gate even though I put the camera lens through it to get a good picture.  When we got home we went in the hot tub then me, mom, dad stayed in it for a while and when the stars came out we could see them clearly because there wasn't a cloud in the sky.  Dad showed me where the Big Dipper was and we discussed politics and such.