Perot Museum of Nature and Science

As you know one the things that I am trying to do is take advantage of the cool things that are available in Dallas while I live here. Last weekend my friend Charli and I hit up the Perot science museum. Before I go into the museum let me tell you a bit about me and Charli. We met our very first semester in college in our chemistry majors class. We had many classes together throughout college and it was so fun to see the different path that out lives have taken after we finally left Aggieland. We are both doctors, although you could say she is a real doctor in that she has patients. While I was in St. Louis we often had late night convos about school and how life was going. Now that I moved to Dallas we try and get together as often as possible sometimes for dinner or some wine and sometimes we check out the sights. As we are pretty nerdy we opted to hit up the new science museum together.

The doctors are in the house!

People have been raving about the Perot since it opened about a year ago (for more info you can go here). For a few months it was the hip thing to do and see. I will admit that I wasn't really sure what there would be to see but I figured it would be a good time either way. When I walked up to the front of the museum there were lots of children playing and hanging out, which made me feel a tad bit like a creeper but the. I decided I didn't care. Charli had a hard time finding parking so once she got there we headed into the museum to get tickets and see what we could see. 

The tickets were 15 a pop, which my mom informs me is kinda steep for a museum. We opted to pass on the movie and some special exhibit, maybe next time. After we got our tickets we opted for the stairs up instead of the escalator, which would have put us at the top floor going down. We mainly hit up walked through the museum and then checked out a few other things. One of my favorite parts was the gene exhibit, but that might be because I am a huge nerd. I really enjoyed the exhibits but on the last floor there were a few kid meltdowns that had us getting out of there pretty quickly. After that we grabbed a late lunch early dinner and visited over some margaritas.

It was a great day with a great friend. One of my favorite things about Dallas is the times when I get to see some of my friends that live here and I haven't really seen in years. I am trying to figure out what I want to see next.

Highlights and Lowlights of the museum
Highs:
-Pretty cool exhibits
-The planet exhibit, I always like reading about the stars
-Hanging out with my friend

Lows:
-a million kids (this is for me, maybe not you)
-the stairs, if you do this with a kid in a stroller you might have a hard time getting around
-some of the exhibits were missing parts of them where it looked like people had ripped it off the wall.


I would recommend this museum to just about anyone, if you need to use a stroller you might want to go on a weekday where there will be less people. If you aren't much of a kid person, I would also recommend a weekday. Overall I thought this was a great way to spend the day.