Museum of the Rockies

Ezri visited the Museum of the Rockies twice.
They have a new play area for children 0 – 8 that is called Explore Yellowstone. It’s a good thing this was available since Ezri got her head caught in part of a display of a DaVinci machine model and had a small panic. She was not truly stuck, but needed to turn her head to get out and was, instead of turning her head, panicking. It was nice to have a more toddler proofed area to explore after the panic.

The Yellowstone Experience has a play foam river with colored blocks that Ezri enjoyed collecting and taking to her Grandpa Mark to have him build her a pyramid.

She also enjoyed decorating Mark.

The area had windsock-esque faux geysers that erupted from constructed landscapes. Ezri was uncertain about the honking noise of the geyser you pumped up with a pump like a bicycle pump. Here she is after an eruption.

Later she was fascinated by the geysers. Here she is watching Old Faithful with her dad.

After visiting the museum we played a game with Ezri where we’d say “geyser” and then raise our arms up in the air and make a rushing noise. Geyser is a new word for her this trip though she’ll have limited opportunities to use this vocab in Illinois.

Here’s the whole gang (minus me, the photographer).

This dinosaur skeleton model has no brain. If he did, he’d be thinking that Ezri looked like a good snacksize morsel.