Museum of Natural Science

One of the many, many things that I appreciate about Texas is the ease of access to everything.

Boston has wonderful museums and attractions to see, but it's a pain in the behind to go to.

First of all, parking in Boston is ridiculously expensive, and if you want to find cheap or free parking, you have to park a million miles away, and hike wherever you're headed....or worse...

You have to take the dreaded "T".

So because of that reason alone, D and I rarely go into the city.

But here in the good ole "Lone Star State", we don't worry about things like parking, and I don't think people here even know what public transportation is.

Last week, my mom and I took D to the museum of Natural Science.

We parked right in front of the entrance...FOR FREE.

Beat that, New England!!!!!!

We spent almost 3 hours there, and D LOVED it!

D is a big scaredy cat (like I am), and at first she was scared to death to go into the dinosaur exhibit, but after a few minutes of explaining to her that they were "nice dinosaurs", and that it was just the bones, she hesitantly walked in. 

I also threw in the fact that she loves Dino Dan on Nick Jr.

Once she got in, she had a blast!

The museum currently has the Ancient Egypt Exhibit visiting the museum.

Again, D was totally spooked by the mummies and scary tombs.

I coaxed her in, and she ended up enjoying it.

She wasn't afraid of the Early Americas exhibit.

she thought all the "Indians" were cool.

The trip was a success!

We didn't get to check out the planetarium or the butterfly garden, but plan on going back to cross those parts of the museum off of our bucket list.

I was pooped after walking around for 3 hours, so I could imagine what that must have been like for D!

I highly recommend that you check this museum out if you're in the Houston area!