Bergamot & Salamander has become a long running family joke.
Sagezilla has a sensitive nose and likes the natural Trader Joe's
Bergamot & Coriander spray to banish nasty smells. It got
re dubbed during her
toddler hood when she
accidentally swapped out Coriander for another rhyming 4 syllable word. Since Monday was a school holiday, we went to check out some actual salamanders
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and their amphibian friends at
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
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We saw live frogs and toads.....
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(say
ahhhhh.............)
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And not so live ones................
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We wound our way through an amphibian question maze, where we learned about
Hellbenders, AKA: Snot Otters and discovered that some frogs really do "taste like chicken".
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The kids helped a
magnetized salamander
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safely reach her breeding ground. They even got a few of their winter
squirrelies out as they swung through the air
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and tried to hop farther than frogs.
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At the end of the maze, a carnival style wheel provided a fun way to recap amphibian information. We were all impressed with the
special exhibit that runs Feb 7
th-May 3rd.
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