Dinosaur Museum

I would have a membership if it wasn't such a journey. Thanksgiving Point is an incredible place. My first visit was when I was 14 and my mom had our family portrait taken there. I had forgotten about it until last year when I was looking for Halloween activities. I am so looking forward to Cornbelly's this year. But today I'll focus on our recent visit to the Dinosaur Museum.

I am not about to hop in the car for a trek to Utah Valley without first prepping Beez full of excitement. The past two days we have been talking of going to the museum and what we were to do there. Today may have been the best experience in a museum yet (not including trick-or-treating in NYC). This museum is so hands-on! Not only does it have an IMAX with 3-D Dino movies, it also has a junior palentologist sand pit for the kids to dig, fossils to touch, a torso of a dinosaur so the kids can build their own dinosaur with the spikes, tails, legs, heads, etc laying around and even a giant window so you can watch paleontologist work on fossils. We did it all!! And at the end as we were in the lobby preparing to leave, we stopped Rick Hunter the 'resident paleontologist'. After chatting for a bit, he offered to take us into the lab (behind the giant window). I can't wait for my kids to realize how cool this opportunity really is. They both got to learn about preparing the bones and even had a chance to use a tool to brush away the sandstone. This is a video of Evelyn at work...