Trip to Utah (Part 1)

So we took a crazy amount of pictures on our trip to Utah this last week. We will have to split up into at least two blog posts.  But we had a lot of fun on our trip.  It was great seeing family and walking through BYU and remembering some of the old places we use to go to.  We went to some of the great BYU museums and had a fun time.

Here are some pictures from the paleontology museum which is a fun museum if you are into dinosaur things.  And it is free - which I love.

Whitney stands outside the skeleton of a dinosaur for just long enough to snap a picture.  I think she liked running around more than looking at the dinosaurs.

Rachel and I are inside the dinosaur mouth.  We don't look very scared though.

Rachel got some help from aunt Erin to try and get some more pictures.  Whitney and Rachel are both sitting on a dinosaur footprint.  I couldn't get all three to look at the camera at the same time (oh well).

And sitting on the dinosaur bone shaped bench for a little break from all the running around.  I think the girls liked the museum.

We also went to the Museum of Art on BYU campus.  They always have some sort of theme to their pieces and this time it was Islamic art.  I could have stayed in the museum forever and just admired all the beautiful work.

These pottery pieces were meant to be halfway done - the viewer is suppose to imagine the rest of the artwork.  I guess it was important in the Islamic world to imagine the unseen world.

Will and Whitney are looking at one of the few original dinars - a really old coin.

There was a statue that was part bird and part lion.  It was intricately carved with lots of religious symbols.  Almost everything in the exhibit had religious ties.  Many of the things had scriptures carved into it or paintings with stories from the Quran.

There was also a room with things for kids.  I put a wish on the tree of wishes.  It was interesting to read some of the wishes - many of them wanted more love throughout the world.

Will and Whitney put together puzzles.  There also was coloring and blocks and little kid books in this cool room.  So it was a fun museum.  I wish we could have spent more time there. 

And we went to the Eyering Science Center, which is like practically a requirement when at BYU.

The swinging pendulum that has something to do with the earth's rotation.  I am not really sure how it works, but it is fun to watch.

Will and Whitney get to play with some magnetic sand.

Whitney liked the Albert Einstein face that moves with you.  It literally looks like his head is turning while you are walking (I always thought those were neat).

Anyway, those are some pictures from some museums.  We had a fun time exploring.  I think Whitney will like the museums even more when she is a little older.