Dino Day @ Franklin Institute of Natural Science

With Andrew not taking afternoon naps our radius of day trip locations had expended greatly.  This year i really want to explore Philadelphia more.  Phili compared to NYC is a much easier going experience.  Everything tolls, parking and tickets is cheaper and easier to get to.  For example if we were to get to NYC we would have to leave early in order to avoid huge delays getting through the tunnel and parking is very limited and expensive.  As my dad says Philadelphia is like NYC on Valium.  It is a more relaxed experience.
On our to do in Phili list was the Franklin Institute of Natural Science because of their dinosaur exhibit and their their traveling exhibit of animatronic dinosaurs.  We went to that first.  The boys were very excited about it.  At a lot of the exhibits of the different dinos there were tablets set up that if you aimed it at a picture it came to life on the tablet screen.  On one of them you could feed a T-Rex and watch it mature.  That was Adam's favorite part.  Zachary's favorite part was doing the dinosaur dig.  It was really cool they gave you goggles and a chisel to work on a giant dino fossil.  Zach was in haven.  He just told me a few minuets earlier that he wished he could dig for dino bones.  Well, boom wish granted.  I think that Andrew liked the dioramas of the different animals the most.  He got excited when he saw animals that he recognized.  I really enjoyed the butterfly room and seeing Andrew get scared when one of the beautiful butterflies got close to him.  Josh really enjoyed the animatronic dinosaurs too.