Sharktastic!

August 26 was National Dog Day.  Why not celebrate by going to a place where they are dissecting dogfish?

Thanksgiving Point was holding its Sharktastic Saturday again and our whole family went.
There were some similar activities as last year as well as some new.

Our first thing, of course, was to get pictures with the large balloon shark that Jeremy made for this event.  Last year it was a great white shark.  This year it was a hammerhead shark.

The kids made shark tooth necklaces again.

They decorated bracelets to wear.

They enjoyed time at the "observation station" putting together a shark figure, as well as looking at shark eggs and other things through microscopes.

The volunteers were really good about giving the kids one on one time, teaching them and showing them things.  One even let Lucky use a microscope on the floor since he couldn't see into it on the table.

Of course there were plenty of the normal museum activities to do and they had different field notes about different types of sharks around to look at and learn about.

Then we came home and ate hot dogs for dinner.
It was a pretty sharktastic (and dogtastic?) Saturday.