Museum of Natural History

I have a love/hate relationship with "free things."   Don't get me wrong I love getting something for nothing but if getting that free thing involves me being elbow with hundred of other people fighting for my free thing...I am out.
So I was a little leery of the Free Admission Day at the Museum of Natural History.  But when I found out you had to get tickets in advance and they only gave out so many tickets per hour I knew  this was my kind of "free."
My sister and I and our eight kids went and were pleasantly surprised!
We loved the interactive exhibits.

How many little girls can fit in a dinosaur footprint?

Oh about seven or so!

One dinosaur exhibit had a glass floor where you could see fossils.  Some of the girls were a little nervous stepping on it...Tessa on the other hand immediately started jumping up and down on it :)

It was a very hot day but we did go out on the roof to dig for our own fossils.

*Doesn't Kylie look happy?  I think she had asked to go back inside about 4 or 5 times before this picture...apparently she was melting.

My sister and I had to laugh at these next two pictures. After 3 floors of awesome sights like the huge brontosaurus skeleton shown above we found them all looking out the window.

 

But with a view like this who can blame them.

We had a great "cost free" day!