The Life & Times of Finnegan Buckley The terribly exciting and ever expanding world of me, myself

Me & Noah sailing our boats

Lots of museum trips the past couple of weeks.  If you can call them museums that is.  More like glorified playgrounds if you ask me.  So maybe I’m learning while I’m playing?  Yeah, that’s it.

Last week I met up with my friends Noah and Truman at the Museum of Life & Sciences in Durham….we checked out all the indoor exhibits, played in the weather station, watched a crash test dummy get clobbered in the crash test machine (Way Cool!), saw some ants building an ant farm, and then played in the toddler area for a few minutes – until I had an ultimate wipe out!  Geez louise aren’t these play areas supposed to be safe?!
All I did was lean over a wall to reach a ball and the next thing I knew I was on my back staring at the ceiling.  Oh god…the humiliation of it all.  And of course I had to sport a nice road rash on my face for the rest of the day.  Oh well, at least it scared off all the kids.  I think they just figured I was a bad ass and they steered clear of me.  Makes me even more handsome, if you ask me.

Next up, the outdoor play areas.  Took a quick run through the playground, made a pit stop at the drums and cowbells, then onto the good stuff – the sand pit with the giant dump trucks!  Seriously…I could’ve sat there all day.  There was A LOT of sand to move around.  But so much to do, so little time.  We can’t sit here all day, there are animals to look at, sailboats to sail and trains to explore.  Let’s move em’ out!

After checking out the barnyard animals we went through the butterfly and insect house.  After that, snack time!!!

By the time we finished all our exploring it was way past nap time.  We were all too pooped to continue.  The rest had to wait until the next visit.  But luckily mom took me back the following week to explore the areas that we had missed the first time.  Saw some bears, some wolves, and even some crazy lemur thingys.