Bean Musem at BYU

Saturday afternoon after the "mini triathlon" and Clark's meetings, we traveled to the Bean Museum on the BYU campus. It is a really cool natural history museum with lots of stuffed animals. We got there just in time for a live animal demonstration. One of the first things the discussion leader showed was a snake skin that was over 18 feet long. Mick and Tori are right in the middle.

After the discussion was over they let the adults hold the creatures. This is a California King Snake which is a good snake because it eats rattle snakes. Mick was a little hesitant, but brave.

Tori also was not too sure about it. She was more brave with her dad holding the snake than when the handler was passing it by for the audience to touch it.

Clark was holding the bearded dragon for Tori to touch.

This is Mick imitating a turtle. Just a little big for this shell I think.

Tori almost fits in this shell.
The discussion leader, Michael Joe, asked a lot of questions during the presentation and Mick had the correct answer to most of them. When the question was asked "How can you tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?" Mick gave a very detailed - correct - answer. The leader stood there with his mouth hanging open and then said, "WOW! Would you like my name tag?" and took his name tag off and jokingly handed it to Mick -- who reached for it. All Michael could do was restate what Mick had told us. When the presentation was over he came to Adam and Julie and asked if Mick belonged to them and complimented them on how very smart he was. Yeah, that's my grandson. ;)