The Johnson family's discoveries regarding classical education

Mar. 2, 2006

Museum Visit

My sister called me up the other day and invited us to join her and her daughter at the University's Museum of Natural History.  We met there today.  It was a pretty interesting place.  One area had quite a number of fossils, which my son found very interesting.  He is thinking he may want to be a paleontologist by and by.  I learned a little about the man for whom one of my grade schools was named (Professor Condon).  He was a professor at U of O, a geologist, and he wrote a book about paleontology.  There were also displays about the changes in climate, etc., over time in this region, and some exhibits showed ways native Americans lived, fished, etc.  We had a nice time. Then I took my kids over to a little park I have been wanting to get to, and we explored that a bit.  Up on a hill, there was more than one great view of the city.  Eventually we found an alternate route back home.  I feel like we learned a bit more today about the place where we now live, and something of its past.  It's been a nice day. And now hubby just called to offer to take me out to dinner tonight, while the kids attend a recital that a friend of ours will be in.

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