Road Trip: The Creation Museum

As a part of Brandon's birthday present, we went down and visited the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum in Kentucky last weekend. Brandon has been following the building of the museum for the last few years. Creationism is something that Brandon is especially passionate about, and we thought it'd be neat to take the kids to learn about it. Therefore, it was only natural that our family would make a trip down south to see the newly-opened museum.

We started driving on Saturday morning. It was a 10-hour trek with stops (you stop frequently when you have a 5 year-old bladder in the backseat). We stayed at a hotel near the museum and the kids really enjoyed that part of the experience. We had the pool to ourselves on a couple different occasions, which was really fun.

We went to the museum on Sunday. It was pretty amazing, especially considering that the museum is entirely supported by donations and it opened debt-free. A guy from Disney designed most of the museum displays, which was apparent by several neat animatronics displays and the special effects theatre. The museum presents concepts of both evolution and creation and encourages visitors to think carefully about both processes. Not having studied creation vs. evolution in great detail, I learned a lot, and was impressed by the museum's seeker-friendly, non-confrontational atmosphere. There were beautiful gardens to explore outside the museum, which was nice and relaxing.

The downside to our trip was that the museum was not so great for the kids. Connor did okay, but Kylee was a mess for most of our time there (thus the picture above). It would be great for children older than seven, but not so wonderful for the little ones. Live and learn.

We began the long trip home on Monday and arrived safely to our house in the late evening. It was so nice to have a couple days away from the normal routine!!