My husband and I took two of our grandsons to the Lake Wood Forest Preserve in Wauconda to see the display they have of Prehistoric Lake County at the Lake County Discovery Museum that is on their grounds until August 30th. The Museum is located on Route 176 just west of Fairfield Road. Admission is $6 for adults and $2.50 for youth ages four to seventeen. Discount day is on Tuesdays, adults $3 and children 17 and under free.

The display is divided into three geological time periods to discover sea creatures, dinosaurs, and ice age mammals. We touched rocks and fossils that dated back 400 million years. We also touched teeth, skulls and tusks from mammoths and mastodons. But the biggest highlight for the kids came when they got to dig in sandboxes for fossils and take a piece home with them. Even though these fossils were very tiny-they were excited about it.

Then we went out into the forest preserve for an adventure looking for any and all wild life. Finding fish and frogs, and even watched as grandpa pulled a turtle out of the water like a magician pulls a rabbit out of his hat. Gavin wanted so much to bring the little turtle home. We had to explain to him that nothing can be taken away from the forest preserve. Carson was having fun watching the fish swim around in the lake. Grandma and Grandpa were just trying to keep up with them as they ran from one water spot to the next. When we wanted to leave, we had to use the fool proof tactic of going to go get ice-cream. The forest preserve is a great place to visit for the day.

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