Coyote Point Park and Museum

Today was free day at Coyote Point, a small museum by our house. In the 8 months that we've lived here we've never gone, so I thought it would be fun to go check it out. To be honest, my expectations were pretty low. But we had a blast. We ended up spending 3 1/2 hours at the museum and the park by it.

The park is huge and is a lot of fun. We went there first and Emma was in heaven. We had the park to ourselves...since it was 9 am...so Emma was running and squealing and laughing. It was great.

Emma loved this dinosaur (dragon...whatever it is) and just wanted to touch his eyes.

A little peek-a-boo on the jungle gym

After the park, we headed to the museum. We started with the little hands on activities.

This tube has air blowing up from underneath, so the kids can stick the foam pieces in and watch them fly. It was a hit with all of the kids there.

Then we went to see the animals...the handful they had. This was seriously the smallest museum I've ever seen. There were a couple snakes, frogs, slugs, an otter, badger, fox, and a coyote. They also a bird and butterfly area that was empty because it's winter. So, not much...but we managed to spend almost 2 hours there. Emma loved it so much we walked the entire museum two times.

They had a cave that was supposed to be like an animals underground home. There were these acorns in it but Emma kept calling them corn pops.

I think her favorite part was that she got to climb on these bars to see the animals.

Jon said to title this picture "Close encounters of the otter kind".
I know it's a bad picture, but I just thought it was cool how close he got.

Emma admiring the dog (coyote)

All in all a great time. We will definitely be back next month!