Utah Museum of Natural History

For our FHE Activity we went to the Utah Museum of Natural History. Dave has recently done and is doing some work for them and after seeing some of the things that they have there we have been wanting to go. They currently have a cool Frog exhibit that we were really interested in seeing. PLUS, we found out that the first Monday of the month is free for families, you can't beat that!

Mylo feeding Al the Dinosaur some very special food, money! Al would talk after you gave him a treat, so of course the kids loved that.

Entering the Toadally Frogs exhibit was this big frog.... Perhaps if Leah kissed it would become her prince charming?!?

The frogs were all very interesting and the kids were very excited to see all the different kinds of frogs and find out their names. Here they are looking at the Dyeing Dart Frog, Blue Dart Frog, and some others I can't remember :)

I have no idea why this thing was in the exhibit, but a great photo op for the kids.

While we were there we got to see them feed the frogs. They only do this 2-3 times a week so it was very good timing. One of the frogs was eating like he missed his last meal, it was cool to see them stick out that big, sticky tongue to eat the grasshoppers.

Here the kids were "inside" one of the tanks. They had just put in some worms for the frogs, who actually have taste buds on their hands. Once they "taste" the worm they eat it very quickly. At first Leah and Mylo didn't want to go "in" the tank but once there I think they enjoyed it.

We also went upstairs were they have a bunch of other cool things like Dinosaurs, Bugs, Wild Life and Minerals. The kids were fascinated by what they were seeing and it was very hands on. We will for sure go back the next first Monday of the month.

Here is a video of the Dart Frogs eating the Flightless Fruit Flies.
(if you look closely you can see the blue frog's tongue)