I completely intended to do this weekend update on Monday, but then life happened and here we are at Wednesday, sigh. Anyways, I still want to share our exciting weekend with you. Our weekend started off on Saturday when Charles was called off from work yay!!!! (Side-note: Charles works almost every weekend all weekend long, so it is a rare treat when he gets a day off). Obviously we had to take advantage of this good luck, so we headed on down to the Indiana State Museum. The state museum is located in downtown Indianapolis, and right now they are hosting a Star Wars exhibit; while Star Wars isn't my thing Charles really wanted to see it, so away we went.

Unfortunately, when we walked in we realized the exhibit was an extra $15.00 a person in addition to admission womp womp, so we decided to wait and do the exhibit with my parents when they came to visit. Instead, we explored the other exhibits the museum had to offer.

The mueum started off with exhibits on the origins of Earth. It took you on a walk from the big bang to modern day with fossils, rocks and other natural samples from each time period. 

 I loved that the museum started off with this sign, and set the precedent that the formation of earth is founded in scientific properties and evidence - this may seem normal to some, but in Indiana something this progressive is a huge deal!

As we walked through the exhibit there was a collection of awesome rocks, and the teacher in me kept saying, I wish my students were here to see this!

I loved the gross puss looking things growing inside this rock.

Some of the rocks were huge! For comparison this is my husbands extremely large x-lineman hand that looks dwarfed next to this rock.

When we finished looking at the rocks, we moved over to the exhibit on early Americans in Indiana. Indiana had a larged American Indian population, and the museum did a great job adding some authentic pieces from the time period to explore.

Charles and I loved this arrowhead collection, because it is so popular here for people to go out in fields once they've been turned over and search for arrowheads. In fact most older men in Indiana probably have a significantly bigger arrowhead collection than was displayed at the museum.

They had a mirror where you could sit, and press a light to see your face with typical facial tattoos of the time. I think Charles made an excellent model.

Charles just wanted to shake his booty in the wigwam for all of you ;-).

After exploring the downstairs and early America / Indiana, we headed to the second floor of the museum. The second floor focused on the 1950's and beyond. They had several relics and old time appliances on display.

I really liked this iron lung from IU's hospital during the Polio epidemic.

We thought this survival kit was hilarious. Clearly, doomsday preapers have been around for quite a while now.

After exploring the upstairs for a while, we realized that even though we didn't go though the starwars exhibit, we could still go through the star wars gift shop (because everyone knows the gift shop is the best part!).

Star Wars belt buckle, for the redneck Star Wars fan.

Star Wars Operation, whhaat! I totally wanted to get this as a recess game for my classroom, then I remembered my students would destroy this in a grand total of two indoor recesses; and it totally wasn't worth the $30.00 price tag.

Because everyone needs a Star Wars patch for their jacket.

Completing our Indiana State Museum journey with a picture in the elevator. Classy.

After the museum, we decided to make a stop at our library where we checked out no less than 20 books. Seriously, we have a problem. After the library we came home and got ready to have some friends over for dinner. Unfortunatly, we had so much fun hanging out with our friends that I forgot to take any pictures, oops! But we had a great time, and by Sunday evening we were totally exhaused and ended the weekend looking like this...

No better way to end the weekend, than to be smothered by the horse dog!