Girl Scouts Visit HMNS - March 24th, 2018
Alex's troop visits the Houston Museum of Natural Science as the azaleas are in bloom at the front entrance
Alex & Evie find a statue of Oliver while geocaching near the Outdoor Theater
Continue looking for geocaches among the skirted trees
The clue is a big bear that Alex clues us in toward
The troop poses with the trojan bear at the park
Take a couple poses with our found geocache location
The zoo's mini train makes an appearance
The tracks are almost close enough to touch the bear
Enjoy lunch at the park before heading back to class at the musuem
We follow the aligned planets back into the HMNS
A stegosaurus points out the way to the underground classrooms
The girls take in a flight similar in the main lobby
This one simulates your flying as if you were a bird
Maybe get a photo with the velociraptor later
Horseshoe crab points the way to the classrooms
The troop attends a forensics/detective class at HMNS
They are joined by at least three other troops today
Go out looking for clues in the basement among the Apollo artifacts
The clue leads us into the main lobby with the flying fish above
The Foucault Pendulum is a visual demonstration of the Earth's rotation
It also hides the next clue for the troop to continue on
Move into the main lobby with all the large reconstructed dinosaurs
Triceratops is looking fine
The plant eaters just want to enjoy their salad in peace
Peggy taunts the velociraptor
Now you're in trouble . . . run away!
The Tyrannosaurus Rex has a good laugh from it
Thanks for the laugh but not I got to go get lunch
Pterodactyls have a seat and plan their next flight
The big ones are hard to capture in one shot
The woolly mammoth has finally stopped shedding
Pass throught the dinosaurs and find ancient egypt
The egyptians were more symmetrical and very colorful
The scouts find a third clue among the egyptian artifacts
The scouts depart the past and move toward the present
Yes, the elephant is not the place to look for the next clue
Descend the stairs to the 2nd level for an equal level view of the fish
Look for the next clue among the fancy gems
This might be turquoise but not sure
Wish I took photos of the nameplates now
A big honking amethyst here
3 different gems with 3 different colors
Unbelievably vivid purple
It is a frozen glass of water . . . maybe?
This is definately gold and much different from pyrite
The final clue tells us to head back to the classroom
Duck your head near the giant squid
Back in class, the girls look for differences in 2 similar images
Find and record the six clues the girls found on their quest
The girls find the differences in two different images
Alex encrypts a message with her paper cypher
The girls encrypt messages and then decrypt them
They gather around the instructor to learn how test substances
They then write descriptions of their known substances
They are corn starch, sugar, salt and baking soda
Evie & Kaitlyn write down unique identifiers of each substance
How does it look, feel and react with water or vinegar?
Salt and baking soda are whiter than sugar and corn starch!
Each scout gets a certificate at the end of class and a patch later
The troop poses with a museum celebrity
Mya, Katie, Abby, Alex, Evie and Kaitlyn had fun at HMNS today
Katie starts the individual poses with the velociraptor
Kaitlyn rejoins the troop after a busy soccer season
Abby pokes him right in the eye
Evie poses with a helping hand on her shoulder
Mya poses arm in arm with her new friend
Alex agrees that the altoid really freshened up his breath
No more poses until moral improves!