December 30, 2007
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Creation Museum-Day One
I cannot even begin to put in words how much fun we had Friday night at the creation museum. The kids (as well as Eric and I) are still on a high from the excitement! Here are a few pics of our adventure so far…
After 15 hours driving through the night and a quick nap we finally made it!!!
Stegosaurus all lit up. They had dinos lit up all over the property for christmas. Of course, it looked better at night but it was pouring buckets so I wasn’t going to take pics.
Caleb tells me these are “raptors”
Pterodactyl inviting us into the Dragon Hall Bookstore. Yes, we spent some Christmas money at the end of the night.
St. George and the Dragon in the bookstore. Jared especially likes this story because his Ukrainian middle name means “George” and Ukraine being Orthodox we are assuming he was purposely given the Saint’s name as all the other children also have a Saint’s name.
A Buddy Davis Sculpted Dragon in the bookstore. (All the dinos and dragons were sculpted by Buddy.)
Proto the robotic dino in the Buddy Davis’ creation Dvd’s. The kids immediately ran up to him. (Btw, we were stalling for time in the bookstore because we had tickets for a specific time in the planetarium for the Christmas Star show.)
Showing off our Dino Desserts in Noah’s Cafe. A very special treat as we never get dessert when eating out! We ate dinner at the Noah’s Cafe after the planetarium show. Great show btw! Although, some of us grown up folks felt a bit woozy afterwards.
Girl Power all in Pink!! Sorry for the blurr… Papa forgot the flash. We couldn’t resist getting a girly pic with those flowers in the back ground after all this dino stuff.
Listening carefully to Buddy Davis to do our clay project. (Yes I was cold thus the coat.)
Time to make a T- Rex tooth. Caleb is in the blue and green striped shirt and Jared is in the red and gray striped shirt next to him.
The girls get to working on theirs.
Now the boys get to work on making a velorciraptor claw.
Chloe shows Mama her claw!
Papa helps on the next project where we made a Behemoth.
The boys doing a marvelous job on their Behemoth!
Jared really was loving this! He kept saying over and over…. “I can’t believe my dream has come true to meet Buddy Davis!”
Time to use straws and put on the scaly marks on the dino. Btw, the girls are in the back because they originally were not supposed to be in this workshop as it was only for ages 7-11. However, several parents, like us, were not willing to leave their children alone in such a huge tourist attraction as the original intent of the workshop. So, we all sat in the back with our little ones. The people running the workshop decided the girls could join in too. We were delighted to say the least and the girls loved it!!!
The boys working on finishing up their creations. We thought this was an excellent way for Buddy Davis to start teaching children about working with clay as it was very accomplishable for their dexterity. This clay doesn’t dry out either so the kids were able to take their projects home and can do it over as many times as they would like.
This picture was a TOTAL surprise for us to get! Jared and Caleb really wanted to talk with Buddy and show him their creations. Papa encouraged them to go ahead and Buddy Davis was so good natured with them and posed for a pic too! His wife, Kay, is standing in the back. If I had realized that when it was all happening I would have asked her to join the pic as she is very much apart of Buddy’s ministry and from what I could tell a very Godly helpmate!
Caleb talking more in depth about his project to Buddy.
I’m only showing you this photo of us to share about the next one… see the sculpture in the back of us? Buddy Davis sculpted that and Caleb was really studying it.
Since the artist was standing right there Caleb decided to go ahead and ask him all kinds of questions about how Buddy made it. The first question he asked was how did Buddy get it to stay up on one leg without it falling over? Buddy had previously explained that he uses the same clay the kids did their projects with to make his sculptures so Caleb was really interested in figuring out the rest of the process. Buddy Davis was great at taking the time to respond to each question. Here he was telling Caleb all about the steel that he uses to get the dinos to stand up and in their poses.
After the workshop we had a photo shoot of another Buddy Davis Dino Sculptor. There is more of this to come.
I have hardly even shown you the inside of the museum! The Buddy Davis workshop and Concert were the big events for this night because neither is a normal occurrence when visiting the museum. We had to have the special tickets for the Christmas Celebration. I will stop here for now…. there was so much more to our day and the
museum itself. I will try to continue tomorrow with all the other
exciting adventures.
Comments (10)
A wonderful place, to be sure ~ we loved our visit there and want to return someday ~
WOW!! How cool was the day… can’t wait to hear more!!!
looks like the kids had a lot of fun….
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You guys look like you’re having so much fun. I can imagine that Caleb, especially, is simply over the moon right now!
I did 3 posts on it ~ you can find it at this link ~ they are titled Grandkid week, Parts 1, 2 and 3
Looks like a great place to visit. I’ve always loved dinosaurs, and right now Bethany loves pretending to be one. We may have to go there sometime when the girls are older.
RYC — Thanks for the insight. . .I need to keep in mind that aspect of one on one as a result of social networking virtually. Blessings. Loved your family pics of the visit to the museum. . ..
Blessings for the New Year!
I saw your comment on Ouma’s site about Facebook and came exploring. I am so glad I did, those are fantastic pictures and a wonderful opportunity for your children. It is so inspiring. I pray you do not mind my staying around. If you have time, I would love to find out about Facebook. I write up my pastor’s sermon notes and am wondering if there would be an audience for that in facebook, or another blog site. I love your idea of ministry. I have three kids who have facebook accounts, and I sometimes wonder about it.
Heather
The Creation Museum is by far one of the best museum experiences that I have been too. Generally I tend to wander ahead and finish well enough in advance. At this place though, I found myself lagging behind!
The planetarium is amazing, and was the highlight of my trip there, but I love anything “Space” oriented.
Hopefully since we live close we’ll be back again. It would be worth the money for sure!