We took another field trip to our state museum yesterday.  It was a special program called "Earth Science Day".  My kids were not too impressed with the earth science displays There were a lot of public school kids there.  We could not get close enough to them.  To our great disappointment, the "panning for gold" was all done by the time we got to it. We, however, are learning to be good homeschoolers.  We "took the road less travelled".  We walked around the parts of the museum not part of the special event.  We were the only ones there, save a couple of other homeschooling families.  We discovered the bonuses of leaving the trodden path: We discovered BEAUTIFUL displays (see above), which rival those at the Museum of Natural History in NYC (that's quite a feat for a small state museum in a state with a population of only about 1 million people) and we met some other homeschoolers.  I had a wonderful chat with a mom of 6-with her precious one month old in tow.  That's dedication to your children's education!