Taxidermy

I have to admit that taxidermy is really kind of interesting. We have a museum where we live that has tons of taxidermied (I know that's not a real verb probably, but it's the best I could come up with) animals and my kids love to go there during the summer when it's just too hot to go to the zoo. Their insect room is phenomenal, in a as-long-as-it's-here-and-not-in-my-house sort of way. You wouldn't believe the size of some things that are technically considered insects. I would term them as small rodents myself. They have a live tarantula that is every bit as frightening as I thought it would be seeing it in real life. They also have hissing cockroaches - as if they needed anything else to make them more loathsome than they already are - from Madagascar that are easily 2-3 inches long. May I NEVER find one of them in my house. Anyway, I have to just say that it's awesome to finally live in a town long enough to find some of these hidden gems.