On Wednesday afternoons, the locals get free admission to the Museum of Life and Science. Today we spent most of our time at the outside exhibits. I wasn't expecting the animals to be that active since it's been hot and muggy here, but this afternoon a storm moved in and it seemed to stir up some activity within the creature features. We saw the bears, wolves, and lemurs in "natural" habitats and the domesticated goats, sheep, a donkey and a steer at the farmyard. The steer was quite talkative and I think both the intensity of his mooing and his size (although he couldn't have been much out of the calf stage of his life) intimidated Madeline. Most baby books don't give you anything to compare an animal's scale to, so I'm sure she was taken aback at how big this steer seemed in comparison to all the other animals she's ever seen close-up (dogs and cats). We also leisured around the butterfly house, enjoying the flora and the fauna. Here's Madeline's version of butterfly kisses:
30 July 2008
butterfly kisses
