In case you haven't heard North Carolina 4-H is celebrating its centennial. In that spirit we thought our 4-H Junior Day Campers should celebrate by learning about what life was like 100 years ago. To go along with that movement we took a trip to the North Carolina Museum of History to see what we could learn.
The big hit at this museum was the "Knights of the Black Flag" exhibit which included interactive video experiences, a pirate ship, and costumes to give the real pirate feeling. After a brief run through sports history we travelled across the street to the North Carolina Museum of Natural History for lunch and an afternoon tour.
Working our way from the top down we saw butterflies, snakes, dead animals and skeletons, as well as live animals and plants. The sweetest part of the tour, "Chocolate, the Exhibition". we learned about the fruit from which chocolate starts from and then how it becomes that sweet treat that we often crave (they even showed us why we crave it). Some even bought samples of different types of chocolate and sampled on the way home.
Tomorrow we will find ways to avoid the sweet and eat and play healthy...in a hands on fun way.
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