Spring Break part 3

On the last day of my trip we went to the Frazier International History Museum. I saw different things all over the museum. By the way, did you know you can see famous English battles upstairs like Hastings and Culloden? On the next level down was American History, and we saw the Boone family bible and Kentucky long rifles that used flint. I also liked the special exhibit about the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank. They found different objects on it. At the very bottom floor, there were tons of guns, a room full. I also saw actors playing Lincoln and Douglass debating. The museum was very big. Soon there will be an animated video of the crusades on my blog. Watch for it.

Spring Break part 2

On Wednesday we went to Big Bone Lick State Park. It is called the birthplace of American paleontology. There was a naturalist who took us all over the park. We looked for fossils and he showed us bison. And I got to pet two snakes. The animals came there because there was an enormous salt lick. Some of them got stuck in a bog. They found lots of different fossils at Big Bone Lick. There were mammoths, mastodons, two types of ground sloths, giant bisons, giant musk oxen, and the humongous elk moose. They had life-size recreations of some of them. You can see them in these pictures. After Big Bone Lick we went to a Walmart in Ft. Mitchell to look for fossils. They cut into a hill to build the Walmart and it is here you can find some fossils. We found tons of crinoids, corals, and Merkin found a big nautiloid cephalopod. Check back tomorrow to find out about the Frazier International History Museum.

Spring Break part 1

Note . . . Because of our extended trip, this report will be broken up into several posts.

On Tuesday Merkin, Dr. J and I went to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Station. We went to the Natural History Museum. First we saw the fossils. We saw mammoths, mastodons (you can tell the difference between mammoths and mastodons by looking at their teeth. The mammoth had the flat teeth of a grazer and the mastodons had the bumpy teeth of a browser), trilobites, crinoids, giant sloths, giant bisons, giant musk oxen, and we saw several different types of rock. There was a cave that you could walk through and explore. There were real bats! There were waterfalls in the cave. And there was an ice tunnel going through a glacier. The tunnel led to the Big Bone Lick exhibit. There was a mammoth dying in a bog. And there was a giant sloth. Close by was a smilodon . . . a saber-toothed cat. That night we stayed at General Butler State Park. Check back tomorrow about our adventures at Big Bone Lick State Park and fossil hunting behind Walmart.
Dude Boy

Just a couple of pictures

Just a couple of photos to show what we've been up to. The chocolate volcano was part of a science project about lava . . . except this igneous rock Dude Boy got to eat.

Creepy Close-Up of the Week

Look at the photos in order to find out what the creepy close-up of this week is . . .

Out of This World

Hello all,
Wednesday Merkin and I went to the Nashville Adventure Science Center for homesCOOL Day. The theme was Out of This World. I learned about the sun, the planets and the stars. Because the new planetarium was not finished yet, we watched the star show in the "Jiffy Pop" planetarium. Later that night we watched the lunar eclipse. I wanted to stay up all night watching it. The lunar eclipse was perfect timing for this homesCOOL Day.
Love, Dude Boy

"Jiffy Pop" planetarium

Poop + Dude Boy= Poophead


Mad Scientist


Looking at the lunar eclipse

Darwin Day and Worms

Dude Boy, Mane and I went to Aunt Pee's and Charlie Dog's for Darwin Day this year. The gummi worms on the cake represent Darwin's last work . . . The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits. Dr. J and Dude Boy created the cake while I was out bushwhacking in the woods looking for arches in the Red River Gorge. Charlie Dog and I also went to see Dr. Eugenie Scott give a talk entitled Intelligent Design: Is It Science? Is It Valid? at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. They have one of the longest running Darwin Day celebrations in the U.S.