North Carolina Museums of Natural Sciences and History

On the last Saturday before school started we headed over to Raleigh to check out the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and the NC Museum of History. It was fun to have Ryan and Marcelaine and Kevin and Heidi join us for some of the day.

NC Museum of Natural Sciences

 Ah! Don't eat us!

A sloth-it moved more quickly than I had expected.

NC Museum of History

 Zach loves cars, so it was fun for him to see real life race cars (from famous North Carolinians Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty-who is Nascar's most successful driver).

 We were happy when the museum clarified "Tar Heel", a nickname for North Carolinians. It comes from the "state's history as leading producer of naval stores, including tar. Workers in this messy business surely wore samples of the product of on their feet."

 

A replica of the Wright brother's airplane, flown at Kitty Hawk, NC.

 Soldiers in the army in WWII.