our first stop was the May Natural History Museum. the name is a bit misleading, because all they really have are bugs. even the road marker to find them is a giant bug. it was a big room full of really old, really dead, and mostly really GIGANTIC bugs- making me decide that i never ever ever want to go to New Guinea. Ever. and the flying foxes? not as cute as it sounds. just scary. the bug museum also included a 12 minute "movie" (national geographic film from 1979), and a "space museum," which i didn't bother to photograph since it was 3 interlocking trailers in the middle of the cheyenne mountain state park filled with posters about space, and a star trek diorama.
i think the strangest thing was how many posters there were of dinosaurs in BOTH the bug and space parts of the museum.
our second stop was the Miramont Castle in Manitou. it was pretty cool, but not as exciting as i had anticipated. it was just full of neat victorian era furnishings, and logan threw a fit because they had lollipops in the gift shop that we weren't going to buy. the basement was a firefighters museum, of sorts, so at least he got to enjoy that :)
we ended the day, of course, at the dutch kitchen. yum yum yum.
i got a ton of walking (and stair climbing) in, and even tried out the birth pool when we got home. i really want to buy one to just have. it's the best.
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