Marbles Children's Museum, Raleigh

 To make-up to Anna for forcing her to endure the Duke and UNC Basketball musuems last month, this week we took Anna to the Marbles Children's Museum in Raleigh.  (For those of you who are unaware with the concept, "children's museum" is another name for "indoor playground you have to pay money to visit.")  Nonetheless, there were enough various educational things here and there which enable classroom teachers and homeschool moms to label this a "field trip."  Fun was even had by Anna's older brothers, who were good sports about the whole thing.  They especially liked the Giant Lego room.

The best thing about the museum was its Imax theater, which was showing a film called Jerusalem.  It was FANTASTIC.  (Granted, we were the only people in the theater. The other schoolchildren were all seeing the movies about blue whales and the rainforest.  The Barnettes seem to be the only folks interested in a 45-minute 3D film about Jerusalem...ha!)  The movie showed beautiful, sweeping scenes of the city, and followed the story of 3 girls who live there:  one a Jew, one a Christian, and one a Muslim.  It was a fair, non-offensive look at how those three religions interact (or should I say do not interact) with each other within the boundaries of the city, and even Tim and I learned from it.  Anyone who ever comes across the Imax Film Jerusalem would find it well worth their time and $5.