Winter is upon us, still. Yes, I state the obvious.
I had plans, big plans on how I would effectively spend our winter days with little tv and quality time outside as much as possible. It has been said, the road to *beep* is paved with good intentions, but *beep* is a lot hotter than it is here right now. Maybe we could just warm up our piggies there and then get back to spending quality time up here.
Seriously though, we went a little stir crazy and decided we would shell out the $10 admission fee in order to see the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum.
It was worth it! I wish I could have stayed longer to read up on everything. They claim to be the largest dinosaur museum in the world, or something like that. It wasn't overwhelmingly huge, but it was big enough, very kid oriented and just amazing.
What an awesome reminder of how amazing these creatures were and that at some point, somehow, they dominated our planet.
(Caleb is getting a lot better at taking pictures. When he sees the camera, he runs up to it and says cheese. So, getting shots of him posed away from the camera are still a bit rare.)
Here's the triceratops for Adam, his favorite dinosaur. He was severely disappointed as a boy when the triceratops, Cera, in the film Land Before Time was a girl.
(Again, here, he was ready to have his picture taken when another kid distracted him. But he is making an effort.)
This shark head is even bigger than the picture gives credit. The only remains they have of these ancient sharks are the teeth, some up to 7 inches long. Experts dispute how big they were, but if the ratio of teeth size to body size is the same as current sharks, they were HUGE! I shudder just writing about it.
It was wonderful. Dinosaurs are amazing. And our cabin fever was relieved.
I had plans, big plans on how I would effectively spend our winter days with little tv and quality time outside as much as possible. It has been said, the road to *beep* is paved with good intentions, but *beep* is a lot hotter than it is here right now. Maybe we could just warm up our piggies there and then get back to spending quality time up here.
Seriously though, we went a little stir crazy and decided we would shell out the $10 admission fee in order to see the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum.
It was worth it! I wish I could have stayed longer to read up on everything. They claim to be the largest dinosaur museum in the world, or something like that. It wasn't overwhelmingly huge, but it was big enough, very kid oriented and just amazing.
What an awesome reminder of how amazing these creatures were and that at some point, somehow, they dominated our planet.
(Caleb is getting a lot better at taking pictures. When he sees the camera, he runs up to it and says cheese. So, getting shots of him posed away from the camera are still a bit rare.)Here's the triceratops for Adam, his favorite dinosaur. He was severely disappointed as a boy when the triceratops, Cera, in the film Land Before Time was a girl.
(Again, here, he was ready to have his picture taken when another kid distracted him. But he is making an effort.)This shark head is even bigger than the picture gives credit. The only remains they have of these ancient sharks are the teeth, some up to 7 inches long. Experts dispute how big they were, but if the ratio of teeth size to body size is the same as current sharks, they were HUGE! I shudder just writing about it.
It was wonderful. Dinosaurs are amazing. And our cabin fever was relieved.
1 comment:
This looks awesome! We should have gone with you guys. I loved your little paragraph about your good intentions for this winter. I think just about every stay-at-home mom is feeling that way right about now...looking back over the winter with a little disappointment and then anxiously looking forward to the hopefully quickly approaching spring and warmer weather!
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