A Night At The Museum

Okay, not the Ben Stiller Movie, but it was super fun.  The Museum of Science here in Boston has members only sleepovers for kids ages 6 and up.  Mia has wanted to sleep at the museum for a long time now and the last one of the year was the week after her birthday, so she just barely made the cutoff this year.  She had been excited for months about this and I don't think she was let down at all.  She loved every minute of it.  Poor Naomi had fractured her arm a week before so she had a cast on and was limited in how much running and jumping she could do, but she was such a trooper she didn't complain once.  It's amazing, we've been to this museum so many times in the past years and we still find something we've never seen before every time we go.  It is huge!  The girls learned about sign language, built models of baseball stuff,  experimented with friction, learned about what happens to the energy when heavy and light balls fall to the ground and had lots of time to explore the museum.  At 10 PM the museum provided a snack for everyone and much to Mia's delight it was none other than Dippin' Dots!  After our Dippin' Dots we went up to the Baseball exhibit that is currently at our museum and we all got to see how fast we could throw a ball.  Mia and Naomi did surprisingly well and I threw miserably as usual.  Just before midnight we headed over to our assigned "campsights."  After rolling out our sleeping bags Naomi started feeling a little homesick.  She called home and talked with her mom and ended up doing great.  The girls crashed almost immediately when they turned the lights out.  I on the other hand had a really hard time falling and staying asleep.  The floor was the most uncomfortable floor I have ever slept on, but it was totally worth it for all the fun we had.  In the morning we had a so-called breakfast - white bagels, yogurt in a tube, cereal and orange juice.  Naomi had brought chocolate milk boxes for her and Mia and they managed to save them for the morning.  Naomi put her chocolate milk in her cereal and ended up drinking it with a straw out of her cereal bowl.  It was pretty funny.  After breakfast we had a special planetarium show and then we got to see an omni film.  Both were awesome.  The planetarium was especially awesome because I knew we would be on the beach looking up at the stars the next night and the omni film was really cool and about prehistoric sea creatures.  Neither girl had ever been to the omni theatre before and I was a little worried that one of them was going to get scared especially since there were some moments in the movie where one giant scary looking fish would attack or eat another giant scary looking fish.  They both had an awesome time though.  After the movie we ran around the museum a little more and then headed home.  Directly after getting home we changed clothes and headed out with everyone to go down to Plymouth.