[Dan & Corinne]

My sister and I took my neice Dhalys to the Museum of Natural History on Monday to see dinosaur bones for her 10th birthday. Dhalys has been wanting to be a palentologist since she was 4! So off we went.

Now, there is a section of the museum dedicated to bugs... I thought they were going to be just bugs stuck on a pin but NOOOoooooooo! They had live bugs in fish tanks!

Ok, I need to tell you that my sister and I are ok with most bugs but have a severe phobia of cockroaches. Product of growing up in Japan - The roaches there are black, about 2 inches, with wings and they can fly. Once you share a shower with one - phobia. Period.

Ok back to the museum:
If the live bug displays wasn't bad enough, they had a display that looked like a fridge and when you open it they showed like roaches and other bugs eating people food! Dhalys was laughing her head off watching me & my sister squirming. Apparently the bugs in that display were not real so I turn to walk away from the "Fridge from Hell" and come face to face with a tank FULL of these 5", albino looking roaches with wings crawling over each other! I couldn't move! I couldn't stop looking! I actually felt all the hairs on my body stand on end! It was..... ewwwwwwww!!!!! My sister and high tailed it out of the bug room! Dhalys just couldn't stop laughing at us!

So, later, we went to a traveling display called the "Bog People". It was really dark with this errie music playing and a creepy voice telling a story as we walked though a maze like display of different artifacts dug up from some Bog in Europe. We know Dhalys is a little scared so we are trying to explain what she is seeing and she's taking it all in getting braver with each display. I noticed her walk up to another display and I realize there's a mummy in there! I pointed it out to my sister and we watched her make her way from the feet of the mummy toward the head... she's just standing there then all the sudden she jumps up realizing what she was looking at and comes running to us and grabs us saying "I didn't know what it was until I saw the hair! It's a person mom! A dead person!" We calmed her down and she started asking questions about it and then once she understood why the mummy is there and why it looked the way it did, she was ok and actually took the time to study the next mummy.

Ok, I know what its like to be frightened and I felt so bad for her but the evil side of me could not stop laughing... I'm still laughing as I'm writing this.... Oh my gosh... I'm a terrible Aunt!!!