Last Saturday I ventured to Museum of the Earth. I did not know what to expect. I assumed that this would be a huge Cornell affiliated museum, though it does have connections to the university it is not directly run by it. Before we even got into the taxis to go to the museum I was puzzled by the idea that we would be taking taxis. I envisioned 12 little taxis to take all of us, but luckily we only needed 3 minivans to get there. The road we took to get there went past Green star and looked like the route my family took from Ithaca to Niagara falls.  The tour guide explained to us  the history of the museum. She pointed out where the major artifacts came from. She tried to make the tour interesting for college students by giving us each a fossil and as we went through each era some of the fossils were taken away because that is when the organism went extinct. It was so weird to think that humans have only existed on Earth for a blink of an eye relative to the age of the Earth.