scouts on the circle

since both kids are in scouts this year, we thought it would be really fun to attend 'scouts on the circle' day in university circle in downtown.  the four museums there, the history, art, botanical and historical society, all had special discounts for the scouts (and leaders) and special activities for the kids complete and earn patches.  it was a really great way, if not a little exhausting, to see all the museums.  

we spent a lot of time at the history museum, which we normally go to, but the traveling exhibit was all about mysterious creatures, which jonny is totally into right now!  he just made reports on the loch ness monster and bigfoot, and had done a great detailed drawing of a chinese dragon.  so he was all over the place trying to learn new things that he hadn't already learned from the books we've gotten.

one idea of the abominable snow man

here we are in the botanical garden, where they release the new butterflies each day.  the kids all got to hold out their hands and the keeper would place one on them until it dried it's wings and took off.  jonny was really lucky and his butterfly stayed on for like 10 minutes!  we finally had to brush it off so we could continue with the rest of the museum!

jess posing with the tulips in the gardens.

we also went to the historical society were we learned about the differences between life today, and life 200 years ago, from transportation, to cooking, and lighting our houses.

then the hardest activity came at the art museum, it was a scavenger hunt.  now, if you recall, we haven't been to the art museum since one fateful day like 4 years ago, when jonny walked on some kings carpet, yea, no joke! so, i very carefully stated all the rules of the art museum and teased that jonny looks different now, so they will still let him go in.  we ended up teaming with some older scouts to find everything on the list.  they really enjoyed the museum though.  maybe we can go again in another couple of years and spend some quality time there! ;)

it was a really fun day!  and they love the patches, cause when you put all 4 together they make a bigger picture.  we will definitely be going again next year!