Does a dinosaur roar?

This morning S-Boogie was delighted to have her auntie Skye stop by for a little visit. Skye brought along a wonderful treasure: a cassette tape of "Our Dinosaur Friends", which was one of our favorite records when we were kids. We listened to all the songs and sang and danced until we were all dizzy and out of breath. All day S-Boogie has demanded "more songs". Then, inspired by the music, we decided to go the dinosaur museum up at Thanksgiving Point. I was a little nervous given S-Boogie's attention span and the fact that I don't really like anything associated with Thanksgiving Point (that's another rant for another day, though). But, it turns out that the museum was a fabulous idea and S-Boogie loved it. They have lots of kid-friendly, hands-on stuff and she spent a lot of time stomping around and roaring. Here are some pictures, even though they didn't turn out that great since it was a little dim inside and she's a moving target.

This is Skye and S-Boogie dressed like trilobites. S0Boogie didn't want to wear the trilobite suit, so we only have pictures of her taking it off.










They have one room with an erosion pool where you can play with sand and water and create geologic features like meandering rivers and stuff like that. You can also bury the plastic dinosaurs in the sand and pretend that they are going to become fossils some day. S-Boogie was actually not that interested in this part of the museum, because she has recently developed a fetish for clean hands and also because she mainly wanted to throw sand and splash the water.




This is a model of Carcharodon megalodon, an ancestor of the great white shark that was quite a lot bigger and scarier than it was. S-Boogie was very impressed by his teeth.







This was the final stop on our tour--another sand pit where the kids can sit and use brushes to uncover dinosaur bones underneath the sand. S-Boogie was a lot more interested in this sand, but we didn't spend too much time there because we were getting hungry and tired. Overall it was a very fun day!