We have gotten out exploring this week. We took a drive downtown to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science and were thoroughly overwhelmed with all that we saw. The drive to Raleigh was an eyeful in itself.
There is so much building going on in Wake County. It seemed like every 2 miles down route 401 there was a new plaza being built with a Food Lion (a local grocery store chain) on one side and a Rite Aid on the other. Never mind all of the housing developments! There were townhouse developments and large house developments all over. This place is really growing. The driving is fairly easy. Since everything is spread out it makes things easy to find and get to. Down town was easy to drive through and easy to park in.
The science museum was awesome with 4 floors of fun stuff to explore including a new Dinosaur exhibit that left us with our heads spinning. They have a butterfly room, a toddler room with a huge active beehive to check out and tons of hands on stuff for all. One room I want to go back and explore is the Naturalist room. It’s for kids 8 and up and is filled with museum specimens that you can touch and tons information on them. That was the last room we went to and the kids were just too beat to even look at it. The museum is so chock full of stuff that we could visit every week for 6 months and not get bored. And it was free! Then across the plaza they have the North Carolina Museum of History. We will tackle that another day.
Yesterday it poured like crazy for most of the morning so Jesse got the day off. He took us to the farm that he is working on and we went on a shopping trip to Walmart Supercenter. I can’t believe I am shopping here on a regular basis! It is the only place, well besides Super Target, to buy things like clothing and pillows. But we took the long way to Walmart and had another look around.
Now we just need to find some people to play with:)
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