My Nature Girls

We have been anxiously waiting a warm day to go and visit the Natural Science Center of Greensboro, and boy was it worth the wait! The girls and I headed over there around 1:00 on Friday afternoon. I really didn't know what to expect, as having been to the Nature Museum in Charlotte, I was so surprised at what this center had to offer. We first toured the inside, looking at really cool aquarium fish, including a moray eel and a small shark. SG even pointed out a Lion Fish (to my disbelief)--which she informed me she learned from "Elmo." We then toured a room full of snakes (I had the chills the entire time) but Sarah Gray and Katherine had their face up to the windows, watching rattle snakes hiss at them from behind the glass. A nice gentlemen let Sarah Gray touch a sweet turtle from Africa, as well as an albino snake, and then he took her into the sea creature explorer room, where she held a sand dollar, a sea urchin, and a hermit crab. We toured the center, looked an numerous "stuffed" wild animals, and viewed the dinosaur replicas, which included a life-size T-Rex. I don't think Katherine was too fond of it (see picture below). We walked a by a television that was playing a video of the "zoo" outside, and as soon as the camera panned to the lambs, SG went screaming and laughing down the hall, ready to go and see her best friends. The little zoo was wonderful!! Before we went to the "farm" we saw meerkats, gibbons, tigers, otters, macaws, giant sea turtles, (the alligators were not out), maned wolves and several other animals. SG felt like she was in an episode of Diego. At the farm, SG and Katherine were able to run around with the little sheep and billy goats, pet the donkeys and miniature horses, lamas, and pigs. Feeding time was at 3:30, so I spent the next 30 minutes watching Sarah Gray and Katherine feed the sheep and goats from a large bail of hay..they had so much fun! I could not believe Katherine even got close to those goats! What a great afternoon and well worth the $16. We purchased a family pass..so we will most likely be back next week!