Mothers' Appreciation Day

My mom l.o.v.e.s museums. I love museums too, and would usually spend more time in an exhibit than the average connoisseur. My mom takes about three times what I would normally spend in a museum.

Enter the Lehi Museum of Ancient Life. My mom has been there three times and has always wanted to stay longer. I told her that her Mothers' Day gift was that I would take her to this museum and she could stay as long as she'd like. If you know my Mother, you know that this is a weighty offer.

We headed down on Friday morning.  There was the teaching area that is usually for kids, the land mass movement room and introduction to fossils, then the star tubes and enter the beginning of life on earth (through pond slime GROSS!  but still interesting).  After pond slime enter microscopic cockroaches (which are the predominant form of life for a billion years or so) which turn into 6 foot long cockroaches and centapedes to boot!

I had been there a couple of times too, but my Mom liked to spend about 45 minutes in each room.  We looked at every exhibit, read every sign, and even spun the relative time wheel enough so I saw recognizable movement on the 100,000 year wheel.  We discussed how each of these evolutionary stages could relate to the Biblical creation story and tried to understand just a little more of how God creates life.

Carboniferous Era, Pensylvanian Era...etc.

She started slowing down when we got through the dinosaurs, and I was concerned that we'd miss the huge turtle skeleton and wolly mammoth rooms since we only had a half hour left until we'd need to be at dinner.  Turns out she had never been in those rooms and had never been there.  That was really fun to show her something that she had never seen.

My mom is really fun to take to museums because she looks at all new knowledge and drinks it in with excited eyes.  In places she's been before she reviews it and trys to turn it into understanding.  In something she had never seen before, it was absolute torture to drag her through 3 rooms in 30 minutes.  The last room was dedicated to pictures of life which has become extinct in the last century.  It's a really well organized museum, and I loved taking my mom there.  Happy Mother's Day, Mom.  I love you.