Night at the Museum

Living in LA rocks. Ok, maybe other stakes do this too - I hope so, it is SOOO cool. Our stake's Father and Sons Outing this year was a Night at the Natural History Museum. Boys and daddys got to spend the night at the museum, do all sorts of activities, talk to scientists, look at the animals, make a fossil cast and stay up half the night playing with flashlights! And my baby was old enough to go. Yippee! Shea and Chris had the. best. time. ever!

Shea has been looking forward to this for months! Here he is, all packed up and ready to go and so so very excited...
Here he is, paying extra close attention to the scavenger hunt instructions...

And with his team (the other 3 boys from our ward)...
Sifting through sand looking for teeny, tiny little precious gem chips with a magnifying glass. He found ALL the gems (periodot, citrine, turquoise, tigerseye, carnelian and amethyst!) Daddy taped his gems to a piece of paper and they labeled them and got to bring them home to show mommy and Clarey.

Putting together a Saber Tooth Tiger skeleton!!
Pretending to be scared of the dinos...
Getting ready for bed in the Hall of North American Mammals. They were near the buffalo and right in front of the cougars!! They didn't turn out the lights until 10:45 and Shea then spent a good 1/2 hour shining the flashlight at the ceiling with the other boys. Apparently totally entertaining.

Shea had to take both Tigger (of course) and his dino slippers (totally apropos).
Overall, I don't think Shea and his dad have ever had a better time together!
Thank you Los Angeles Stake!!!!!