Walk with the Dinosaurs

Today, my sister-in-law, Kristin, and I took our kids to the Arizona Museum of Natural History (used to be known as the Mesa Southwest Museum). There are huge dinosaur skeletons and all kinds of fossils and even some gold panning opportunities for the kids! Blake especially loved our outing today. He's not quite a dinosaur nut, but he likes to learn about them! :)

How do you size up? A HUGE Mammoth!

Blake with the T-Rex (Night at the Museum, anyone?)

My pictures pretty much all turned out wretched because once again, I decided to take our little camera instead of the SLR. When am I gonna learn that I regret that EVERY time!! As big and bulky as it is (moreso than a compact camera anyway), the picture quality is a gazillion times better! So please, don't laugh at my mediocre pictures, with poor lighting and awful red eye! I'm embarrassed. *hanging my head in shame*

This is a dinosaur femur!

Gavin playing with the dinos in the activity center
Brooklyn doing dinosaur rubbings

Outside to pan for gold! So hilarious- Brooklyn was the only one that actually cared about finding gold! The boys just scooped up sand and water, dumped it back in and ended up soaking wet! Brooklyn complained about her flip-flops being dirty afterward! LOL!

Three gold-diggers!

This was waaaay cool and funny! The kids could go back behind this tv, stand against a blue screen and they'd appear on the tv!! All three were being silly!

Movie stars!

We had a dino-mite time!!! ;)