Where can you see dinosaurs, a forest and Aboriginal artifacts all n one place?

The Melbourne Museum of course. We seriously spent most of the day there. And, we don’t usually go on tours, but this time we did and it was pretty interesting. We learned things that we definitely wouldn’t have otherwise.

Dinosaur Walk

The Forest

Mark and his Mommy. Same smile no?

Human interaction with the forest

Please don’t ask why we’re posed like this. I know we look a little silly. The notches represent human impacts on the forests.

Where's the animal?

Blue Bird who likes blue things

Seriously, the guide said he would collect blue things and sometimes people would give them to him. The branches on the left are his house.

Walking Stick

There were so many different exhibit areas. There was a whole bug wing that had thousands of insects. Some are sooooo creepy!

The Aboriginal wing is interesting too because it had some of their artwork, and told about the history of “tribes?” in the Melbourne area. There was also a curator who had objects traditionally used by them. One was a possum skin ball. They sew pieces of possum skin together and stuff it with grass or something like it and play games with it. Brit loved it. He kept chasing after the ball and kicking it.

Royal Exhibition Building

Built for a fair or convention in the 1800s, the building isn’t used much anymore, but looks really cool.

View from the hotel

It was Karen’s last day. so we took her to the mall/casino/hotel too and we had dinner there at a place called Automatic. There was a mixture of foods, but we all really liked what we had. There was only one meal we had there that I wasn’t really thrilled with.