Creation Museum

Creation Museum

http://creationmuseum.org/

We spent two days at the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio.

At the beginning of your self guided tour you take a trip through a Canyon!

Next stop is the dinosaur digging site! 

 Isaiah, Moses, and David bring us God's Word.

Martin Luther nails the 95 theses to the church door.

Guttenberg Bible Press Replica

                                   

Today`s culture rejects biblical truth

Today Man Decides truth whatever

Planetarium was amazing it showed how awesome God is!

A room filled with pictures and videos of God`s wonderful creation!!

realistic animal figure in the Garden of Eden.

Becca and Lily walk through the Garden of Eden.

Adam names the animals.

God created the Dinosaur on the 6th day.

Adam and Eve 

                                                

Notice the serpent watching Adam and Eve from above.

Corruption - Adam and Eve ate the fruit that God said NOT to. Then sin entered the world.

Look closely at the door.

Sacrifice 

After the fall Adam and Eve needed to work.

Muthuselah - the oldest person ever to live! 969 years!

Noah`s sons building the ark.

Noah`s ark replica

another view of the ark

Animals coming 2 by 2 

ark after the flood

ark during the flood

Can you find the chameleon? 

We enjoyed the new bug exhibit.

Rhinoceros beetles

butterflies and moths

leaf insects

stick insects

more butterflies

various insects

Dredging and shells!

For the last 4 months they have been dredging the ocean.

They are doing this because when hurricanes come they push sand in and draw it back out to the ocean.  They need to do this every five years or after three major hurricanes.

Dredging is when a HUGE boat goes out and picks up sand, shells and sea life and spits it out in a tube running from the boat to shore.

After this the shells are all around and there is really good shelling.

Nutmeg shells! They range in size and are one of my favorites.

Augers.  Are very sharp and thin.

Olives. Walking on the beach just for a few minutes you will find many!

I saved my favorite shells for last..... the Lighting Whelk!

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras!

Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday.  It is a holiday that falls the day before Ash Wednesday.  Some countries call it Carnaval which means goodbye to meat in Latin.  Traditionally, in the days leading up to Lent, people would eat all the meat, butter and fat in their homes, preparing for the 40 days leading up to Easter when they would eat only fish and fast from other foods.  

Mardi Gras has a lot of traditions like parades, balls, feasts and crazy costumes!

In the past month our family has gone to eight Mardi Gras parades!  Each of the kids has collected over 100 beaded necklaces and many stuffed animals.  We have also caught our fill of moon pies. 



We took these photos at the Orange Beach parade yesterday.  It was wet outside but the streets were full of people who didn't leave even when it started to rain.  

Special Southern Treats!

Differences in the South

Would you ever see this in Minnesota?

During our time down here you can get some treats that you can`t get up north.

 Moon Pies are two cookies with a marshmallow filling.  Moon Pies have different flavors including: vanilla, chocolate, banana, orange, coconut, mint, strawberry and my favorite is peanut butter.

Millions of moon pies are thrown from Mardi Gras floats each year.  Previously, Cracker Jack boxes were thrown from floats for people to catch but that hurt when getting hit in the head.  Moon pies are a soft snack that are traditionally thrown at parades on the Gulf Coast.  

  The King Cake is another Mardi Gras tradition.

The name is to honor the three kings that came to bring gifts to Jesus. The King Cake is cinnamon roll like cake that has different flavors including: strawberry cream cheese, cream cheese and cinnamon.  They are beautifully decorated with white frosting and a lot of sprinkles in the Mardi Gras colors which are: purple, green and yellow.  Inside the box you also get colorful bead necklaces and a small plastic baby to represent baby Jesus.  Before serving the cake someone hides baby Jesus in it.  The person who finds Jesus is king or queen for the day.

Rebecca found baby Jesus which was hidden in the cake.

Dolphin Cruise

Dolphin Cruise

Yesterday we went on a 1 1/2 hour dolphin cruise! 

There were two boats that went out looking for dolphins.  One clue to locate where the dolphins are in the water is to look for where the birds are flying over head.  The birds like to steal the fish away from the dolphins.  When one boat spotted some dolphins, the boats would then drive parallel to each other and speed forward to make a huge wake and the dolphins would surf the waves and jump.

Here's a video of how playful the dolphins were on our boat ride: