Saturday, December 04, 2010

The Desert Museum

After many suggestions to check out this museum, it was on our hit list today.  Here are a few shots from the day;  First crazy stop was the mountain lion....i don't think we have EVER seen one so close!  It was cool to lean over and tell the boys "THAT is what often creeps around our property that we have to watch out for"
 Cheetah
 Armed with brushes and goggles, our little archeologists dig for bones.
 4 years old and so cute.
 AND smart!
 Taking a break.....
 Extinct black tailed gophers....the only ones recorded were here at the museum.
 We do alot of map reading on this trip....
 Watching a raptors flying demo
 Riding the wild boars
 Do people really DO this???
 I love Arizona.....the desert museum was very cool....Cristin, i purposly left out the pictures of all the snakes they had here...but whoa, i watched a diamond back rattlesnake crawl right up the wall of the cave it was in..i think it was trying to get to the top to get out, there was just a little chicken wire......and i was on the other side.....easily the most freaked out i got today.
But its beautiful here....little sad to leave tommorow.