After Farm Country and a lunch break Kyle and I took the kids to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. As we were walking up to the building there was a mural on the side of the building of a T-Rex crashing through the wall of the building, and Jeremy asked me why the dinosaur broke the wall. I had to explain to him that it’s just a picture painted on the wall, but he was so cute.
The long and insane line to get in, that we saw earlier this morning was now gone, and we just walked in paid and paid admission and we were off to see the exhibits. We didn’t stop and look at things for very long (since the majority of our kids can’t read, and even if they could they would have no idea WHAT they had read) Kyle and I just explained a bit on their level what things were. We spent most of the time just looking around at the different things to see, after all the kids mostly wanted to go see the ‘dinosaur bones’. There was one room before we got to the dinosaur part of the exhibits that was COMPLETELY dark, and you had to walk through it to get to the next room. Jeremy especially was afraid of going in there. Upon walking in there were stars all around, but I will admit that it gave me kind of a funny dizzy feeling being in the complete darkness completely surrounded by stars. I had to reach my hand out to make sure there was a railing to know for sure that I wasn’t going to fall off the path (since the railing was black and the whole room was dark you couldn’t SEE it at all). Then it was time to see dinosaur stuff. Here Kyle is pretending that the dinosaur is going to bite Dinah. Check out his crazy eyes, and Dinah is trying to pull her hand away from the dinosaur as Kyle is trying to pull it toward the dinosaur. 😛
The kids had loads of fun and kept running off to see everything, and Kyle and I had to keep hunting them down.
As we left we stopped in the gift shop and the kids each picked a rock candy ‘lolly pop’. And here they are on the ride home enjoying their rock candy:
PS: There are more pictures in the photo gallery.