Friday, May 23, 2008

At the museum

Susan came to visit, and we took the boys over to Thanksgiving Point to the dinosaur museum. Ben ran through the museum looking for the fish. We have got to get that boy excited about dinosaurs too. In this photo, he's holding a toy dinosaur from one of the play areas in the museum.



Maybe the dinosaurs are just too big for him to process. They have full-size replicas of brontosaurus skeletons. Susan was especially impressed at the giant turtle skeleton that was 116 feet from flipper tip to flipper tip. Notice the size of the foot we're standing by in this photo; it belongs to a brontosaurus.



Benji was not interested in holding still for photos. He ran laps around the exhibits, sure that if he just looked hard enough, he would find a fish. Simon was pretty mellow.




Just before the exit, there is an area where the kids can play "archaeologist" and discover dinosaur bones in the sand. Susan noticed that there wasn't a sign saying, "kids only" and happily joined Benji in the dirt.

4 comments:

Jamie said...

How fun! I don't blame Susan, I would've gotten right in there and played with the kids too! Melinda, you look so cute with your hair and hat like that. Your hair is getting long!

Anonymous said...

Benji really liked this part of the dinosaur museum. Like Da said, I was fascinated. I told Da she needed to take Benji to the farm...he would love the interaction with the live animals!

Kristanne said...

We all get in the sand to dig for bones. When we went on the girls trip last year I got a picture of my mom in there with Makae and Courtney

Orson and Marilyn said...

Good for you, Susan! While you were digging for bones, I was counting caterpillars at Capitol Reef with the Davis kids. We grandmas know how to have fun!