D is for Dinosaur

For preschool on Wednesday we took the kids to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden. They were focusing on letter D for the week, so it was a perfect activity for such a beautiful day. Plus, Kimball has been asking about going to a museum to see dinosaurs like Curious George does in one of the episodes.

Here we are inside the building with the actual dinosaur fossils. There was a window that we could look into a seperate room where a group of scientists where cleaning up some of the fossils. It was interesting to see all the tools that they were using, and boy what a time consuming job to put a bunch of fossilized bones back together like a puzzle.


Here the kids are at the T-Rex. You cannot see it in the picture but on the ground right behind the kids is another dinosaur that was killed by T-Rex. It had a huge chunk right out of it's side. We had to explain that this was an ornery dinosaur. Then every time Hazel would see a dinosaur that was attacking another one she would say, "ornery one", or "mean dinosaur".



After desperately trying to get Kimball to get in this picture with Hazel and I he ran off, so here is a picture of us at the dinosaur park minus Kimball. This is at the playground area where all the kids were playing after our picnic lunch. I guess I cannot blame him for not wanting to sit around for a picture where there were so many fun things to do with his friends.

Here are the kids digging for dinosaur bones in the sand with brushes. When I asked Kimball what his favorite part of the dinosaur park was he told me that digging for bones in the dirt was the very best.

I took my camera along in my purse to the park, and when I pulled it out to take the first picture I noticed that the memory card was not in it. I left if in the computer. I was very disappointed, but thanks to my good friend Christi I have pictures here to share with you. Thanks Christi!