When we got there, Grandma and Grandpa graciously offered to treat us to a mammoth screen dinosaur movie. Before the show started, we checked out a room with lots of cool motion toys, like this one with all the balls rolling:
Curtis, however, found something he liked much better in the hall outside the motion room: a wall full of dinosaur paintings. That's where he and Mom spent most of their pre-movie time.
Then came movie time. We'd seen 3D movies before, but mammoth screens really do bump it up a notch. We could have sworn those paleontologists were trying to bury us with the dirt they tossed up on their dinosaur digs! Also, Mom decided that Mongolia (home to many fossils) looks a lot like Nevada. All in all, definitely a fun thing to do, and we are now quite educated about dinosaurs. Nevertheless, Mom will hold off from naming these fossils we saw for fear of lapsing into "Land Before Time" nomenclature:
The dinosaurs were a hit, of course, and the kids also enjoyed the hands-on activities, like this "build-a-dinosaur" project. Here's Curtis with a head:
And here's Lydia with a tail:
We also saw a few non-dinosaur sights, like this giant shark head model. One of the funniest other exhibits (for us) was one of human skeletons trying to take down a mammoth skeleton. One of the humans was perched on a hill with a rock over its head ready to throw. Curtis really wanted to try throwing that rock himself.
The last stop was an "excavation room," where the Muffins had fun uncovering "fossils" in the sand. Curtis especially made several visits there.
And, last but not least, we saw these nifty ice sculptures on our way back to the car. Thanks again for a fun outing, Grandma and Grandpa!
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