T-Rex Museum

For Connor's b-day I took him to the T-Rex Museum. Actually on his birthday, I couldn't find the place, and of course I ran off and left home without my cell phone. Yes, I did stop to get directions- twice- but no one knew where it was and it was listed at the wrong addresses in the two phonebooks I tried. Yikes! Needless to say, it was a pretty small place and apparently, fairly unknown. Anyway, so I figured out where it was so we went the next day. Connor had a fun time discovering dinosaurs, fossils, and checking out the cool stuff in the gift shop.

He's holding this weird jellyfish-like creature that represents the beginning of the evolution of dinosaurs.

Checking out more dinosaur history.

I think Connor's favorite part was playing with the dinosaur toys and the doll house! He also liked the puzzles and books in the reading area.

A neat thing they had him do was "dig" for fossils. They had two digs set up, one of some sand that you ran through a coarse screen to find the fossils- stuff like teeth, claws, rocks.

The second is this screen box that they ran water through and we shook out. They said it's much like panning for gold. In the box he found some cool rocks, gold and amber pieces, a snail fossil, and a little green toy (that's what's in his hand in the pic).

All in all it was pretty cool. The place was small so it only took us a little over an hour to see everything.