We took a trip to New Haven, CT to visit the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
The first thing we saw was an Egyptian exhibit, which I thought Savannah would love. At home, she checks out countless books on mummies, making mummies, mummified animals, tombs, etc. BUT, she (shocker!) took one look at a real mummy, covered her eyes and told me she was scared. So, we exited the the Egypt exhibit and went to see the dinos.
Our Alabama girl was cold in the a/c, so she was shivering and unhappy. You can see how happy Gage looked, too. Sometimes, I wonder if I'm going to the museums for the kids...or myself!!
Both of them were excited to see the stegosaurus, but Savannah was cranky because she was cold so she wouldn't stand for a picture. Gage, as you can see, was more interested in the triceratops' skulls off to the side, which he was frantically pointing at here
Savannah did want to measure the t-rex skull with her arms, but Gage kept getting in her way so they were fighting and pushing each other around. Oh...the joys of siblings.
All Gage wanted to do at this point was find the elevator so he could push the button. He kept saying "EWEVATOW, EWEVATOW" Seriously, dude? You can look at dino bones but you want to push an elevator button?!?! Kids....I don't get them.
After we finished the Peabody, we went to Pepe's Pizza. YUM! Pepe's has very thin crust pizza with the most delicious sauce and perfect crust. I haven't had it in years. New Haven pizza is famous for a reason. To make it even better, they have birch beer , no wait -- DIET birch beer. It doesn't get any better.
You can see how excited they were about getting pizza. Savannah's sandal broke as we got there, and as I tried to fix it with a band-aid (because I am McGyver), Adam called and the phone from my ear onto her head and she started crying. Ugh. I somehow managed to convince her that her shoe would be like flipflop now. She finally bought it and ripped the strap off the other sandal.
Although neither of them wanted to be there, they decided that Pepe's pizza gets two thumbs up!
Finally, we stopped by Yale's bookstore to buy t-shirts for everyone. You know, Yale is where I always secretly wanted to go to college, but during high school I didn't think I could get in, so I never applied. To this day, I wonder if I could have, and it has turned into a life lesson for me to never count myself out without trying. So, even if I never went to Yale, I can wear a bulldog t-shirt, right?! Gage loved this cool fedora. And by the way, WHO is this grown up cool little dude who chose a straw fedora and made a peace sign for the picture?!?! He's growing up too fast.
I told Daddy that we needed to up our game for our college fund for these two ;-) As we left the bookstore, I suggested we walk around campus a little but was met with groans, moans, and other unpleasant sounds from these two. I decided not to push my luck or I'd end up carrying both of them back to the car after they got tired!
So, when anyone asks if we had fun in New Haven, we say yes. But as you can see...fun is in the eye of the beholder ;-)
