The cHiLdREn'S Museum

Indianapolis reportedly has the biggest and best Children's Museum in the country. In fact, we buy an annual membership as it pays itself off in just two visits.
Well, today I got to go the Children's Museum. Well, *a* Children's Museum. At least that's what Olivia called it. And oh, what a time we had.

Trained spiders named Sharlette (the handwritten sign said so).
Baby spiders "from Egypt," with their own yarn web.
Dinosaur specimens in plastic viewing cases (a.k.a. my music cassette tape sleeves).
Lizards who hail from Salt Lake City and have their own exercise boxes (wouldn't want any unfit lizards after all).

Yes, I learned alot today. Let me tell you about the poachers. Olivia and her "assistant" (that would be her sidekick younger sister, Cierah) are certified divers. They dive for shells which the dolphins allow them to retrieve without attacking . There are no sharks to fend off because poachers in the Gulf of Mexico got them.
Apparently there is also a problem with French poachers killing off bears. But Liv and her toadie assistant saved one stuffed baby bear during a poacher attack and that bear is now trained (I assume he sat in on the spider's training session).

Pulling out a map and using the Navy flag her Uncle Scot gave her, Liv pointed to the natural habitat of the those Salt Lake City lizards.
"See those gills? They look like gills but those are no gills. Those are egg sacs."
Who knew?!

We then had a question and answer session. Being resourceful, Liv knew how to get information if she didn't know an answer; from her Barbie toy computer, also known as a "laugh top" (this coming from the same girl who says, "My badge" instead of "my bad"). Oh, and that toy computer can also scan snakes (there's about as much need for a snake scanner as there is for a lizard's exercise box, but alas we are in Liv's world at the moment).

The big reveal came at the end of our tour, when Liv told us she had received an email from Steve Irwin. Now she knows he died (sadly; we loved him), but I think it confuses her to still see him on TV. Anyway, apparently the email read, "Marry someone else." Did she fancy a future with Steve? Perhaps. Guess that's neither here nor there since she revealed that she's Jeff Corwin's wife. What with the Australian snake he presented her as a gift, who wouldn't want to marry him?

She said we were at the Children's Museum but I'm thinking we got lost in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood of Make Believe somewhere along the way. And that's okay with me because the real world will be on her doorstep soon enough.