Bodies Revealed, Natural Science Center, Greensboro, N.C.

Since Chris had to work last night, he took me to see the Bodies Revealed exhibit at the Natural Science Center in Greensboro, N.C., for Valentine's Day on Saturday.

This traveling exhibit displays several bodies and body parts that have gone through a process called polymer preservation. Besides showing the respiratory, circulatory, reproduction and other body systems, there are examples of organs with cancer, a diseased lung and organs that are enlarged for various reasons, such as infection. It may sound like a weird Valentine's Day trip to you, but I loved it!

The exhibit is only at the center through March 6, so you've got a couple more weeks to visit and check it out. The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday and is located on Lawndale Drive in Greensboro.

There were a ton of people there to visit the museum and the exhibit. A coworker, who went Sunday, said a museum employee told her that 1,300 people visited on Saturday! The museum gave people tickets and allowed people into the exhibit in shifts.

We had the 12:30 time and had an hour to kill before we could enter, so we walked around the museum itself and the small zoo behind the building.

Downstairs are several science labs were kids can get their hands on some projects and experiments. I think most of the labs are held as classes and you have to register. When we were there, there were kids in the physics lab building with Legos. I couldn't see what they were working on, but the kids were intently working together in small groups. Cute!

We peeked in the biology and herpetology labs and an aquatic area to look at the various creatures in aquariums and such. There were snakes, lizards, morays, turtles and fish.

A two-headed yellow-bellied slider turtle.

A moray, which is related to an eel.

A snake.

A hellbender, which is a salamander

Another snake; this time a rattler. I don't know what's with Chris's obsession with snake pictures! :)

Iguana

Outside in the zoo there are turkeys and peacocks wandering around the park, lorikeets, gibbons, lemurs, tigers and a petting farm with goats, burros and other animals.

Wallaby

Peacock

Animals at the petting farm.

Lemurs!!! I wanted to pick one up and squeeze it! :)