The Creation Museum should be required of every Christian homeschool student and their families. It makes the Creation Message literal, concrete and understandable. It will help Christian children explain the fossil record, dispute Darwin, and explain intelligently what God's Word says about the age of the earth.
Creation Museum Lobby
A fierce fellow over the bookstore entrance -- he moves!
This one munches continuously above us as we
enter the lobby.
Adam names the animals.
Beautiful Eve and Handsome Adam
No Shame
Before sin entered the world -- we lived peaceably with the animals -- including the dinosaurs.
After the fall, animals and humans ate flesh.
Another "Terrible Lizard" (Dinosaur)!
One of the historical events in the Bible that I have always been fascinated with is the World Wide Flood and Noah's Ark. I write about it in the book,
What Really Happened in Ancient Times.
So, the Noah's Ark exhibit was probably my favorite part of the entire museum.
These pictures don't capture the massiveness of the ark, and the beauty of this exhibit.
I also thought Noah looked a little like Ken Ham (the founder of the museum). I wonder if he modeled for it!
Noah is animated, and he talks about the coming flood to his friend here, while shouting out orders to the ark workers, too!
The workers are animated, too, and there are the sounds of pounding and sawing as you walk through the ark exhibit.
My husband captured this picture of the inside of a model of the ark. I was excited to see that many of the ark exhibits were as I pictured the ark to be in my mind and my book. But that's after I did a lot of research. People who are unfamiliar with the facts of the ark will be impressed, I think, at its size and functionality.
Another of my favorite exhibits was the Babel exhibit. I wrote about the Prophet Daniel in Babylon in that same book, and it was fun to see the colors of the Babylonian Ishtar gate. In this exhibit, the story of Babel is told and the different races of the earth explained. We are all of one race: The Human Race!
Here you can see an example of the excellent craftsmanship that is an integral part of the museum. This is the bottom part of the wall in the Babel exhibit.
This page of a 300-year old Torah from Iraq is in the Bible Exhibit.
Eddie enjoyed taking pictures there, so that gave me some time to take off my soggy boots and sit on her porch. I like sitting there imagining her sitting there. I took my kids there once and read a chapter of Limberlost to them on that porch. I love that house.
Since the Limberlost is so near and dear to my heart, I just had to get my husband to take a picture of my bike in front of the convenience store sign. If you're wondering why I'm not in it -- remember -- I was drenched and not looking too glamorous.
We made it home safe and sound, and our puppies were glad we were home, too! We put them in a kennel for the first time in our lives (and theirs!). They were so exhausted from being at the kennel (I can just imagine they barked their fool heads off for days) that they immediately went to sleep snoring loudly! Here are Frankie and Oskar, my constant companions on the couch when I'm on the laptop:
A fierce fellow over the bookstore entrance -- he moves!
This one munches continuously above us as we
enter the lobby.
Adam names the animals.
Beautiful Eve and Handsome Adam
No Shame
Before sin entered the world -- we lived peaceably with the animals -- including the dinosaurs.
After the fall, animals and humans ate flesh.
Another "Terrible Lizard" (Dinosaur)!
One of the historical events in the Bible that I have always been fascinated with is the World Wide Flood and Noah's Ark. I write about it in the book,
What Really Happened in Ancient Times.
So, the Noah's Ark exhibit was probably my favorite part of the entire museum.
These pictures don't capture the massiveness of the ark, and the beauty of this exhibit.
I also thought Noah looked a little like Ken Ham (the founder of the museum). I wonder if he modeled for it!
Noah is animated, and he talks about the coming flood to his friend here, while shouting out orders to the ark workers, too!
The workers are animated, too, and there are the sounds of pounding and sawing as you walk through the ark exhibit.
My husband captured this picture of the inside of a model of the ark. I was excited to see that many of the ark exhibits were as I pictured the ark to be in my mind and my book. But that's after I did a lot of research. People who are unfamiliar with the facts of the ark will be impressed, I think, at its size and functionality.
Another of my favorite exhibits was the Babel exhibit. I wrote about the Prophet Daniel in Babylon in that same book, and it was fun to see the colors of the Babylonian Ishtar gate. In this exhibit, the story of Babel is told and the different races of the earth explained. We are all of one race: The Human Race!
Here you can see an example of the excellent craftsmanship that is an integral part of the museum. This is the bottom part of the wall in the Babel exhibit.
This page of a 300-year old Torah from Iraq is in the Bible Exhibit.
Of course, we can't put every single picture of the museum on here -- it would take pages! We needed more time to see everything we wanted to see.
Here are some tips for those who go:
1. Remind your kids that it's not an amusement park -- it's a museum. It has animated animals and humans, but all in all, it's a lot of reading, watching and listening.
2. Be prepared to wait in lines. The museum is set up in that you "go back in time" and there are videos along the way to watch. All of them are highly recommended and excellent. My favorite one was the movie, Men in White in the theater where the chairs shook during the flood scenes and it rained on us!
3. We only had four hours to go through the museum because we took our hotel shuttle. That is not enough time to get through everything -- especially if you have children with you. Plan to get there early and be there all day. Even if you do it in eight hours -- there will still be more to read and see! Doing it in four hours made us feel like we were in a foot race.
4. Don't skip the Planetarium. It really strengthened my faith in the bigness, power, majesty, and intelligence of God. I think all kids should see this -- it would help them understand how very small we are, and that the universe definitely doesn't revolve around us. I just don't see how anyone who doesn't belive in God can leave that experience an unbeliever.
5. I don't know what the water and snack rules are there, but they do have a cafe. If you have wee ones, I would definitely make sure they have their cups and crackers with them.
6. Wear comfortable shoes. It's a ton of walking on beautiful, hard concrete floors. But don't worry -- if you can't do long stretches of walking there are plenty of benches along the way for resting.
7. Take your camera -- you can take pictures! There are things I remember that I wish I would have taken pictures of.
8. If you live close enough, go with just your spouse for your first visit (as we did) so that you can be prepared for what it's going to be like for the kids.
9. Be sure to check out the "dragon" in the bookstore!
10. Plan on being very excited about the quality, beauty and message of the museum. Everything is top-notch, A-1, excellent. Ken Ham and his team are to be commended and God Praised for presenting such a glorious message in our times!
11. Take your unsaved loved ones to this museum. At the very end of the museum a salvation video is shown. Christ is exalted all the way through this museum. And at the end, people are encouraged to give their lives to Christ.
12. Be sure to pause at the exhibit of Ken Ham's father's bible, opened to Genesis, and full of his notes. I stood in there in honor of his parents, and in my heart, I thanked them for rearing their son in the Truth of God's Word. What a legacy!
Here are some tips for those who go:
1. Remind your kids that it's not an amusement park -- it's a museum. It has animated animals and humans, but all in all, it's a lot of reading, watching and listening.
2. Be prepared to wait in lines. The museum is set up in that you "go back in time" and there are videos along the way to watch. All of them are highly recommended and excellent. My favorite one was the movie, Men in White in the theater where the chairs shook during the flood scenes and it rained on us!
3. We only had four hours to go through the museum because we took our hotel shuttle. That is not enough time to get through everything -- especially if you have children with you. Plan to get there early and be there all day. Even if you do it in eight hours -- there will still be more to read and see! Doing it in four hours made us feel like we were in a foot race.
4. Don't skip the Planetarium. It really strengthened my faith in the bigness, power, majesty, and intelligence of God. I think all kids should see this -- it would help them understand how very small we are, and that the universe definitely doesn't revolve around us. I just don't see how anyone who doesn't belive in God can leave that experience an unbeliever.
5. I don't know what the water and snack rules are there, but they do have a cafe. If you have wee ones, I would definitely make sure they have their cups and crackers with them.
6. Wear comfortable shoes. It's a ton of walking on beautiful, hard concrete floors. But don't worry -- if you can't do long stretches of walking there are plenty of benches along the way for resting.
7. Take your camera -- you can take pictures! There are things I remember that I wish I would have taken pictures of.
8. If you live close enough, go with just your spouse for your first visit (as we did) so that you can be prepared for what it's going to be like for the kids.
9. Be sure to check out the "dragon" in the bookstore!
10. Plan on being very excited about the quality, beauty and message of the museum. Everything is top-notch, A-1, excellent. Ken Ham and his team are to be commended and God Praised for presenting such a glorious message in our times!
11. Take your unsaved loved ones to this museum. At the very end of the museum a salvation video is shown. Christ is exalted all the way through this museum. And at the end, people are encouraged to give their lives to Christ.
12. Be sure to pause at the exhibit of Ken Ham's father's bible, opened to Genesis, and full of his notes. I stood in there in honor of his parents, and in my heart, I thanked them for rearing their son in the Truth of God's Word. What a legacy!
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I have to admit, I didn't enjoy my trip on my motorcycle on the way down as much as I did on the way home. On the trip to the museum, we took mostly interstates and we got a late start, so we really didn't get to enjoy anything because part of our trip was made in the dark.
But on the way home, my husband agreed to go on backroads, and we had such fun!
Here are some pictures of our trip home on our motorcycles:
I have to admit, I didn't enjoy my trip on my motorcycle on the way down as much as I did on the way home. On the trip to the museum, we took mostly interstates and we got a late start, so we really didn't get to enjoy anything because part of our trip was made in the dark.
But on the way home, my husband agreed to go on backroads, and we had such fun!
Here are some pictures of our trip home on our motorcycles:
Just across the KY border -- my husband's bike on the left, mine on the right. That's my cute husband, Eddie in the middle. 
Yummy diner! I love eating in these little mom and pop places! We had chicken fried steak -- one of my favorites!
This is the inside of the diner. Isn't it cute?
After our hearty meal, we headed north and got caught in a thunderstorm. I had already wet my shirt down at the diner to keep cool in the sun, so when it rained on us, I froze! We stopped for a few minutes in a Wal-mart parking lot then headed out again. After about an hour the rain stopped and we reached one of my favorite spots in Indiana: the home of Gene Stratton Porter where she wrote the books Freckles and The Girl of the Limberlost. I grew up reading her books, so she is pretty special to me! I love her books and doing unit studies with them. I have written unit studies for a few of her books that I hope to make available soon.
Yummy diner! I love eating in these little mom and pop places! We had chicken fried steak -- one of my favorites!
This is the inside of the diner. Isn't it cute?
After our hearty meal, we headed north and got caught in a thunderstorm. I had already wet my shirt down at the diner to keep cool in the sun, so when it rained on us, I froze! We stopped for a few minutes in a Wal-mart parking lot then headed out again. After about an hour the rain stopped and we reached one of my favorite spots in Indiana: the home of Gene Stratton Porter where she wrote the books Freckles and The Girl of the Limberlost. I grew up reading her books, so she is pretty special to me! I love her books and doing unit studies with them. I have written unit studies for a few of her books that I hope to make available soon.
Eddie enjoyed taking pictures there, so that gave me some time to take off my soggy boots and sit on her porch. I like sitting there imagining her sitting there. I took my kids there once and read a chapter of Limberlost to them on that porch. I love that house.
Since the Limberlost is so near and dear to my heart, I just had to get my husband to take a picture of my bike in front of the convenience store sign. If you're wondering why I'm not in it -- remember -- I was drenched and not looking too glamorous.
We made it home safe and sound, and our puppies were glad we were home, too! We put them in a kennel for the first time in our lives (and theirs!). They were so exhausted from being at the kennel (I can just imagine they barked their fool heads off for days) that they immediately went to sleep snoring loudly! Here are Frankie and Oskar, my constant companions on the couch when I'm on the laptop:
Next week we'll be going to Joni and Friends Family Retreat. I will post pictures of that when we get back!
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