The Elusive Science Museum Pass

Our library system has this great program called the Museum Pass program. You can "check out" a pass to certain museums and up to 4 people can go for free. These are great places too - the zoo, Miami Children's Museum, Deering Estate, Viscaya, the Science Museum and the art and history museums.  It is sort of a game to get them though.  Each library has one pass available at a time (except for the zoo - each has 4, but only for part of the year).  The pass is first come first serve and is good for 1 week.  If you use it the next day, no one can get it for a week.  The available passes are updated first thing in the morning, and you could get just about any of them any time if you are willing to drive far enough.  I'm not.  But we have at least 4 libraries close enough that I am willing to make a trip just to get the pass.  But there's no guarantee.  I've showed up 20 minutes early only to find I'm 2nd in line.  That happened to us twice with the Science Museum, but yesterday...we got it!

We were needing a good field trip anyway.  And we had a great time - plus there were NO field trips there today!  It was just us and a handful of European tourists.

Mangrove wall

Rob showing off his muscle on the body heat detector.

Strong baby!

Touch tank

Classic!

I would be remiss if I didn't add that there are some exhibits under construction right now - and they happen to be very visible ones.  Also there are plans to build a new science museum in the next 3 years.  But we still had a very fun time.