Real Pirates

Today, we went to the Milwaukee Public Musuem to check out their Real Pirates display.  Unfortunately, I forgot the camera sitting on the counter at home, so we had to use the Ipod to take the pictures.

This display was Barry Clifford's quest to discover a childhood story that was told to him by his dad of the pirate ship, the Whydah, that sunk off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717.  After much research at the library and searching the possible location off the coast, he finally found his treasure...the sunken ship of the Whydah and a bounty of loot! 

The boys had a great time looking at all of the discoveries and loot.  We were there for over 3.5 hours looking at all of the exhibits the museum had to offer.  We were impressed on their level of interest.

We found their Butterfly room and went in to check it out.  The butterflies would land on our hands if we stood really still and quiet.

There were stations like this all over the room for the butterflies to land and feed on fresh fruit and nectar.

This is the first butterfly that we came into contact with and Cooper was brave enough to hold him.  We were able to get one for Brewer to hold, but we were not quick enough with the camera, but the smile was priceless.