Walking With Dinosaurs (and other fun things!!)

For weeks, Craig and I have been talking about taking the boys to the State Museum's dinosaur exhibit, "Mesozoic Monsters." And, finally, today we did!! Porter loves dinosaurs, and was overjoyed when I told him we were going to see them up close and personal! He could hardly contain himself and we couldn't get there fast enough. The exhibit was awesome; the dinosaurs were life-sized, they moved around and made all kinds of noises. Porter was a little nervous at first, but quickly warmed up to the cold-blooded creatures.

Porter...sitting in a T-Rex footprint!

Bowman got in on the action too! There was a table of toy dinosaurs for the boys to play with, and Bowman thought they were a ton of fun!!

Hanging out with the T-Rex

Digging for fossils

After we made it through the dinosaurs, we decided to take the boys around to the rest of the exhibits. I haven't been to the State Museum in years (and actually I've only been for sorority and fraternity functions!), and I was amazed by how many neat things there were to see and do.

The Giant White Shark...can you imagine swimming in the ocean with that thing???

Talking with an astronaut!

We hit the KIDS ONLY Discovery Center on the way out. It's a large playroom with a tree house, cabin, chalkboards, giant lego table, etc. The boys played for what seemed like forever. In fact, we had to drag them out of there for lunch. It was a great day, and we'll definitely head back one day soon!