The Saturday before Easter, we thought it would be fun to take grandma to the Rock Museum. We've wanted to take her there for a couple years now and it never worked out during previous visits. Grandma and Sarah both share a love a rocks and collecting rocks. It turned out that they happened to have an Easter egg hunt event going on that day - it was serendipitous! Instead, we took our empty eggs to a table where we exchanged the eggs for a mysterious grab bag.
At the gate we were given instructions to find three Easter eggs in the forest - adults and children. It was a gorgeous setting for an Easter egg hunt. I quite enjoyed the beautiful scenery while looking for colorful plastic eggs. The best part was that the eggs didn't have anything in them! I know that may sound funny, but I just get rid of candy from one holiday and another holiday comes up and, well, there's always too much.
Instead of candy, we took our empty eggs to a table where we exchanged the eggs for a mysterious grab bag. Inside we found all kinds of treasures! I think the adults in our group were just as or more excited than the kids! The picture below shows all the rocks I got in my grab bag. Everyone got four different kinds of rocks and it was so fun to look at everyone's different surprises inside. (Angela is showing off a couple of hers above.) That was the best Easter egg hunt we've ever been to and we'll definitely make this a new tradition.
When we finished the Easter egg hunt we headed inside to show grandma all the amazing rocks. We found another fun surprise inside. They were having a silent auction of several rocks starting at around $2 each. We signed up for several and came home with some additional rocks and shells and fossils for our family rock collection! What a fun day.
Sarah and grandma loved looking at each rock together. Sarah is pretty funny and explained many things to grandma because she is an expert at this museum. (o: (A funny thing too, was that she came with her class AGAIN for a field trip a few days later - I think Sarah could give tours there now.)
One of the girls thought the black inside this petrified wood looked like Twilight. (o:
Sarah's most favorite rock in the museum. Que angels singing and light shaft coming down from above.
Natalie was content to twirl and dance in the big exhibit rooms.
This was shortly before discovering the petrified dino poop. Sarah made grandma and me laugh so hard when she did a mini "show" about two dinosaurs having a conversation. "Hey do you think your scat will ever end up in a rock museum?" "No" says the other, "Well, Bob's did!"
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