Dinosaur Museum

Thanksgiving Point has an awesome dinosaur museum. We get a property pass every spring with our tax return. My kids love going up there. Last week, during Spring Break, we spent an afternoon up there with the Fronk family, Elma, Edil and Baby James, and Brayden. We had so much fun!!

One of the displays is a large scale. We had all the kids pile on to see if they weighed as much as a dinosaur.



I can't remember what kind of dinosaur skeleton this was. I told the kids to look scared and Brayden gave such a good performance that I just had to post this picture! Plus Mckenzie looks darling as always.

One of the favorite stops at the museum is the Erosion Table. It's a table filled with sand, water and plastic trees and dinosaurs to teach the kids about how many dinosaurs were preserved in mud and then later discovered due to erosion. It's really clever!
I can't remember what this next exhibit was about... but it's an awesome picture!! When my kids were tiny, they were so afraid of walking past this exhibit. Once, Doug pretended to feed Ethan to the shark and Garrett and Chase freaked out!! Oh the trauma we inflict on our kids.

The museum is beautifully put together, but it's really kid friendly. They have lots of exhibits that the kids can touch, so it's really interactive. The picture below is of a fossil guessing game where the kids look at a picture of three fossils, then reach under the black boxes to feel the texture of a fossil and then try to guess which one of the three fossils it is. It's one of my kids' favorites!



We had a really fun day. It ended kind of funny though. When we left, it was snowing and blowing like crazy! We could barely see the parking lot, so we all made a run for the car. The boys made it to the van, but me, Mckenzie and Carter sort of overshot our mark. We were running around like crazy people in our flip flops in the snow. By the time we figured out where the van was, we were soaked. It was hilarious and a little weird because the day before was gorgeous!! Good thing Aunt Elma had some cupcakes waiting for us at home. We needed the comfort of cake and frosting.