Last week we went to the GR Van Andel Museum with Grandma Engelsma, and other aunts and cousins. It was free during Christmas break, and they had free carasoul rides, so we took advantage of that. We had a very fun time!

Annica under the huge whale skeleton

Riding an old fashioned stagecoach
Evan... not quite reaching the petals!

Super cool plane.... bethany, you should probably make a paper mache one like this! :)

Evan in an old war uniform

Both of the kids on the carasoul... pretty sure I'm spelling that wrong...

Annica, being as ferocious as the bear behind her! EEEeek!

My future little scientist. She was looking at these sample slides for like 10 minutes, and I finally had to pull her away.

WhoDunIt? was the big exhibit for most of last year. It was a crime scene with clues, and recorded witness accounts, and the body to do an autopsy with.... all kinds of charts explaining blood spatter patterns, and size of entry wounds, etc. Very super interesting, and then you have to solve the crime, and they give you the answer at the end. I didn't get to actually do it, b/c they kids of course don't care, and it would have taken like 1.5 hours to actually do.... oh well. The exhibit is gone now for the new year :(

Our mugshots

Police motorcycle with flashing lights...

In the cop car... they loved this!

In the slammer!

Then after the museum, the kids wanted to walk across the river which was super high. We had a big melt, and all of the walking paths by the river were under water. So we crossed the big blue bridge, and they though that was great.

These kids are all Jason's sister Heather's, with the tallest in the back being his Aund Ronda Slenbroek's.

Okay, that is all.... We had fun that day.... hope you enjoy looking!