The Quiver

T-Rex attack!

We went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point (Lehi, UT) today. Cheezer/Butterfly had a birthday recently, and it has become a tradition that the one celebrating the birthday gets to choose a family activity. Occasionally they are encouraged to find something a little less pricey, or to find something that all the family can enjoy, but usually they come up with something fun and reasonably priced.

A couple of the things that were beyond the normal monitory pain threshold were museum-type exhibits. There is an aquarium up in Sandy, and the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point that come to mind. (It ain’t cheap to get in to these kinds of places with seven kids, lemme tell yeh.) We decided that it was worth the education to buy year memberships and then milk ‘em for all they were worth!

Finding dinosaurs

Anyway, Cheezer picked the dinosaur museum right from the get-go and wouldn’t be enticed in any other direction. No great surprise, really; she’s had a fascination for dinosaurs since she was tiny. She used to take several of the large, hard, plastic dinos to bed with her. Some kids have soft, cuddly teddy bears; she had plastic dinosaurs. With spikes. And claws. We’d find her curled up on top of them nearly every night. I don’t know how she could sleep on those hard, pokey things, but she did. Her favorite movie when she was about four was Jurassic Park. She would watch it for hours on end—fascinated, never scared.

The kids were out of school today, so I took the day off and we all trooped through the dinosaur museum as Cheezer’s birthday family activity. Fun was had by all.

For some of the little ones, this was their first experience and we had fun as they rounded some of the corners.

Pre-historic Jaws

(Can you tell which were a little nervous posing for this picture.)

And finally, a gallery with a sampling of the 188 photos(!) I took on our outing today. Hope you enjoy, ’cause we sure did!