It's Going to Be a Year for Science Museums: Back to Martinsville for Dino Day

Kim has mentioned it before, but we are thrilled with our ASTC Travel Passport!  With it, we headed back to the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to take in Dino Day, one of their special annual events. 

Dino Day is a "fun day" all about dinosaurs that is very accessible to elementary-aged children.  This year's event featured two animatronic dinosaurs, a dinosaur origami station, Appalachian State students chatting about their experiences on fossil digs, a balloon artist, and similar items of interest to kids.  One of the niftiest parts?  The event included a true variety of interests and even included a station where a watercolor artist created pictures of dinosaurs.  If you go, know the stations crowd the museum a bit, and we noticed crowds were thinner as the event progressed.  It is our understanding the event returns each winter for a day of fun sponsored by local industry.  While visiting, we continued to enjoy the other exhibits, spending more time in the current temporary exhibit about the role of water in Virginia on this trip.  This exhibit features a sophisticated sand/water table which Elijah and Gwen enjoyed for well over 20 minutes, and they would have stayed longer if I had let them.  To read more about our overall take on the museum, click here.  For a real throwback, see our first visit here, one of the first times Kim and Elijah went out adventuring for a mommy-and-me date.