Where can you go to
1. Touch live sharks and sting rays?
2. Witness an alligator eat a 5 lb rat 4 inches from your face?
3. Watch Cuddles' the 250lb. python squeeze the life out of his prey before your very eyes?
4. See Ralph the cayman with a really nasty attitude attack mice so viciously it made me cringe?

Catawba Science Center of course. It meet my children's need for carnage, animal facts, hands on exhibits and the 'CHAIR OF BARF'. The last one sounds disgusting to adults but I find it's very popular with the 15 and under crowd.

All this excitement and still the best part of the day was

The gray/brown splotch in the middle of her sucker is a cricket.


His life mission of collecting arrow heads begins.

Notice the green substance on the poarch in the background? It's sand, lots and lots of sand. "Why?" I ask my young charges. "Because we are homeschoolers." Seems to be a cop out to me.