Dinosaurs With Daddy

Daddy wanted to take advantage of our family pass and come to the Dinosaur Park with us on Saturday. It was only his second time ever at the museum.

Parker tried to be brave by the robotic dinosaurs. Here are the boys showing their brave expressions.

In the museum they have a little room where a real paleontologist studies real dinosaur bones. He let us hold this 85 million-year old dinosaur bone. We learned more reasons of why they don't put the real bones on display. It's true that they're expensive and rare. There are only four complete T-Rex skeletons in the world and they about $30, 000,000 a set. I hadn't realized that they are extraordinarily heavy. The bones weigh as much as a car, so it takes steel braces to hold them up in a display. Because you would want to see the bones, not the display, the brace costs nearly as much as the bones themselves.

This little bone was a little heavy for Jas, but he could hold it. It's not a complete bone, but it's part of one that helps hold up the allosaurus' stomach. As a side note, on the way home, Brad and I talked about the possibilities of dinosaurs. Did they really live 85 million years ago on the earth? In the morning of the sixth day, when God created the animals, did he create the dinosaurs, then did he exert such extreme pressure and conditions that they died and the bones seemed to age millions of years in a maybe a few hundred? When God created the earth, did he use some of the material from where the dinosaurs did live, which is why we find the bones? I don't know what happened. I believe that dinosaurs certainly existed and I know that God created the earth. I just don't understand all of the details. Anyway, back to Jas, the paleontologist and the real dinosaur bone.

Here is Jas by a T- Rex cast. Oh, the paleontologist also said that they have very impressive technology that allows them to cast the bones exactly. They don't have artists add scratches, every place the cast shows a mark, there really is one.

Parker by the Allosaurus. Right between his legs you can see that bone we were holding.

Digging for fossils in the sand.

Liesel loves crawling around in the sand.

Jason was mostly interested in collecting as many brushes as possible.

This is the kids' favorite part.

Liesel by a Brontosaurus.

The boys liked climbing in the cave like Daddy.

I had to take advantage of Brad being there so I could get a photo of me and all the kids.

Here is one of the kids with Daddy. They boys are trying to be T-Rexes.

We're so glad Daddy was able to come with us!