We saw Night at the Museum today after getting a glowing recommendation from a friend of ours. It was hilarious! Definitely one we'll want to rent (or buy) when it comes out on CD to get all the behind the scenes stuff. Especially since we're told (by someone on our NJ list who's met him) that the little boy is a NJ homeschooler :)

It also struck me as a good unschooling movie! I love the scene where he's researching all the exhibits. He was doing it because he was motivated to learn the information. It was relevant to his life and so he wanted to learn it. I thought that was cool.

The website is pretty neat too. You can zip around the museum and click on various exhibits to learn about them if you are interested. Of course, half way through it closed on me but that might be because Robert was doing something funky on the computer before and I should reboot.

But anyway, we were so inspired by the movie that tomorrow we're going to NYC to the Museum of Natural History on a whim. That was where the movie took place but they changed a lot of stuff around for the set. The outside shots were it though. We haven't been there in a year or two so it will be a nice trip. NYC is always an adventure, starting first with the bus, then Grand Central Station and the subway and the museum will be almost an afterthought, LOL!

Owen is asleep already in preparation for the big day. Bridget almost fell asleep a few hours ago but seems to have found her second wind. She woke up really early (for her) this morning so we could go to the matinee showing of the movie. Of course, the night before she didn't go to sleep til her usual time so I'm hoping that means she'll drift off pretty quickly once we head to bed.

Right now she's playing a Magic School Bus game about the planets. She's writing down facts about the planets and drawing diagrams of them in a notebook. She's been working on it for awhile and has all 8 planets plus Pluto (since the game is a few years old). I'm still sad about poor Pluto. I mentioned to Bridget that not all scientists agree with the reclassification. She sounded really surprised about that. Still, I think most of them do. Poor, sad little Pluto. Poor me! 37 years of my life it's a planet and now Poof! It's not? Humph. Change is bad.