Sunday, January 22, 2012

Where the dinosaurs lived...

We took the kids down to Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, UT to see the Museum of Ancient Life.  Dinosaurs, of course.  It was very interesting how many dinosaur fossils come from this part of the world, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana.  So many of the dinosaurs in the museum actually lived around these parts a few years ago, including Paul’s favorite, Tyrannosaurus Rex!  My favorite was the massive Supersaurus, a brontosaurus-type dinosaur that was over a hundred feet long and would have weighed 40 tons.  They had a couple that were pretty incredible.  The boys had fun, obviously.  And we had trouble keeping up with Adam, who decided he no longer needed us and would rather run the museum by himself.

 Wouldn't want to be stepped on by whatever this leg belonged to.

Here we are with the Utahraptor... a dinosaur found in, you guessed it, Utah.

The boys took this one for a ride.

Adam took a moment to hang out with Megaladon, the largest shark to ever live.  He ain't scared.

And Paul got to dig for dinosaur bones!  Too much fun, and a pretty cool museum that wasn't too far away, so it was all in all a good time.  And Paul would like to remind his Grandpa Bill that T-Rex would beat Triceratops every time!

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