Family Roadtrip! The One Where They Celebrate 25 Years! Day 4

We woke up in Cincinnati Ohio this morning and will sleep in Charleston, West Virginia tonight. We had a busy day filled with adventuring and driving. 
Our first stop was the Cincinnati Museum Center. The main attraction for us there was the dinosaur hall. 
Dane was excited about this place as there were a couple of species of skeleton that he had not previously seen. 
The museum center is built in the old train depot and is really a neat place. We didn't check out all of the exhibits, but we did go through the museum of Natural History, the space exhibit, and the History of Cincinnati. 
The history of Cincinnati had a model of the city from many years ago. You could press buttons to hear the sounds of the city and some of them even sent scents into the air (like leather and soap for those factories).  It was really neat. 
After our morning at the Museum Center, we went to the Cincinnati Zoo. 
They have a really cool hippoquarium and a new baby hippo, Fiona. 

It was pretty muggy, and being that this was our 3rd day in a row at a zoo, we decided to only visit part of the zoo and then be on our way. 


We drove through some of northern Kentucky and into West Virginia. 

We decided to venture out in Charleston to catch the fireworks.

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