The Pink Palace Museum

We spent the night in Memphis last night and today got up early to visit the Pink Palace Museum. It is over 35,000 square feet of museum, gift shop, dining area, planetarium and IMAX.

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We really enjoyed the preserved birds and other animals.

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The shrunken head was a bit creepy.

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This is a former exterior wall but it now protected by an addition to the building. You can see the pink coloration where it got the nickname Pink Palace.

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I loved exploring all the little displays. There wasn’t a lot we could touch so we spent extra time at the touchy areas.

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The hand carved wooden circus was really neat to look at as well.

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I liked playing “find everything in the display” in the fossil areas.

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We saw a planetarium show after we finished up in the museum. It was a great break from all the driving.

Celebrating B’s 8th Birthday

I loved going to MOSI and seeing the Sea Monsters exhibit. I thought the animals were pretty neat. I really liked seeing the inside of the penguin!

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I found a Thresher shark!

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I convinced Mom that I needed a sugar stick like Breighton.

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We played putt-putt and I actually played really well!

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B let me feed one of the hungry hungry gators. One was very snippy and kept taking all the pieces of hotdogs!

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Since I am not a cake fan, Daddy bought me a giant cookie to celebrate Bs birthday.

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HUGE!

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Happy birthday big brother!

Motorycle Madness

Tonight was motorcycle night at the baseball game. there were a few hundred motorcycles that lined the warning track before the game!

It was very loud.

We had a late start to the game because if a mini storm that came through. The tarp went on the field and we waited and waited. Finally the weather cleared and a beautiful rainbow came out.

Then after about 1.5 innings the tarp went back on and the game was called for the weather.

We go about 2.5 inhes of rain at the house!