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Article: Dinosaurs after dark: New York's Museum of Natural History offers sleepovers for children, parents.(Society)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- January 4, 2007
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Byline: DEEPTI HAJELA
NEW YORK (AP) -- It is not the cuddliest of sleeping companions, but that did not stop Jonathan and Sebastian Mendez. The 9-year-old twins knew exactly where they wanted to lay their sleeping bags for the night _ underneath the huge replica of a blue whale.
The boys, parents in tow, were bunking down at the American Museum of Natural History as part of a new program that gives kids a new way of looking at the museum -- by night.
"I never got to sleep under a whale," Jonathan said as he and his family prepared their resting area in the museum's giant Milstein Hall of Ocean Life.
The sleepover program officially ...