Our Trip to the Creation Museum

This past week we went to the Cincinnati area for a vacation with my parents.  We left Sunday after worship and drove to Petersburg, KY.  We planned to visit the Creation Museum on Monday.  But Caleb, our 2 year old, had different plans.  He got sick with a stomach bug and we were up with him till 3:30 a.m.  So we decided to delay the Creation Museum trip and drove north to the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio.  This was our first visit to the Great Wolf Lodge, but we hope it will not be our last.  The GWL was a perfect hotel for a family with young children.  We went to the huge indoor water park on Monday.

The kids loved the waterpark at Great Wolf Lodge

On Tuesday, Amanda woke feeling puny with the stomach bug.  The kids and I played a scavenger hunt style game called MagiQuest at the hotel where you buy a wand and go on various missions.  The kids really liked it.

The kids playing Magiquest.

Then we went back to the waterpark that afternoon.  The hotel also had an arcade and bowling that the kids got to enjoy as well.  The GWL was so nice, because it had everything and you didn’t have to leave.  We did leave to go eat some and also ate some in the room.  We had lots of fun with family.

The kids with Dad and Mom at the Great Wolf Lodge

On Wednesday, our last day, we headed back south and went to the Creation Museum.  Here are some of my thoughts on the museum, though I must say I cannot give a thorough review as we were there on a cold day so we did nothing outside.  We were also fairly tired and had to drive the rest of the way home on Wednesday so we had incentive to not stay too long.

Us in front of the Creation Museum

• The museum is top-notch in quality and technology.  It was well-organized and impressive with its “look.”
• We really liked the use of animatronics and the emphasis on God’s Word vs. man’s word.

Here are some of the displays.

• It involved more of the overall story of Genesis and mankind rather than just a scientific focus on creation.  It told the story of Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, and Babel.  It emphasized sin and Jesus’ atoning death on the cross.
• The staff were very helpful, kind, and passionate about their work.
• Much of the information and displays were for kids at least 7th grade and up.  Most of the information was more depth than my children 10 and under needed or could understand.
• As you might expect there was a big focus on dinosaurs and explaining about them.  But you might not expect to see so much information about the flood of Noah.  As Amanda said, “it was all about the flood.”  Answers in Genesis see the flood as being the key to explaining many of the questions about our current world.  I don’t disagree with this, but there was way more flood information than I expected.
• The restaurant at the museum had really good food that was reasonably priced.
• The gardens, petting zoo, and other outside activities looked really good, though as mentioned above we didn’t do anything outside because of the cold weather.
• The planetarium is a significant extra cost.  We had a special deal through Cincy Savers that provided our tickets.  It was a good show, but not sure it would have been worth the cost for young kids.  It was pretty technical.
• Finally, it was so refreshing and encouraging to go to a museum that gives God the glory and honor for His creation.  It deals with the major themes and topics today in the debate and gives lots of strong information in support of creationism.

Landon hanging out in the Garden of Eden.