A older couple today was watching me rebuild the lego train. The man asked me if I was building 21. His wife explained that ever year he counts the trains. I mentioned we had more then 21 trains, and he said “Only the moving ones count” and when I finished and got it running he excitedly shouted “21!” And they left smiling
I had a small child, maybe 5 or 6, come up to the Ordovician cart. He was looking at the trilobite and I said, “that’s a trilobite.” He looked up and said, “It’s Isotelus Maximus.” He then went through the different fossils, giving their latin names (although the pronunciation was difficult, he got it all). His dad said that he saw a documentary and since then has been interested only in these fossils. The kid then interrupted because he wanted to know how I felt about Eurypterids because “they are the best but I don’t think a lot of people like them.” After he finished I told him he should be running this program and he got excited and said “Can I?!” but his Dad stopped him and reminded him about boundaries. He had apparently been talking to a lot of other visitors in the gallery. Another family walked up and I let him tell the other kids about the fossils that were out. He was very serious and it was absolutely adorable. -NM
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A older couple today was watching me rebuild the lego train. The man asked me if I was building 21. His wife explained that ever year he counts the trains. I mentioned we had more then 21 trains, and he said “Only the moving ones count” and when I finished and got it running he excitedly shouted “21!” And they left smiling
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I had a small child, maybe 5 or 6, come up to the Ordovician cart. He was looking at the trilobite and I said, “that’s a trilobite.” He looked up and said, “It’s Isotelus Maximus.” He then went through the different fossils, giving their latin names (although the pronunciation was difficult, he got it all). His dad said that he saw a documentary and since then has been interested only in these fossils. The kid then interrupted because he wanted to know how I felt about Eurypterids because “they are the best but I don’t think a lot of people like them.” After he finished I told him he should be running this program and he got excited and said “Can I?!” but his Dad stopped him and reminded him about boundaries. He had apparently been talking to a lot of other visitors in the gallery. Another family walked up and I let him tell the other kids about the fossils that were out. He was very serious and it was absolutely adorable. -NM
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