Above right: Dracula as one of the "paleontologists" featured in the museum. :-)
We did the museum first, which had many fossils, skeletons and computers with info and history of dinos. Above left shows a triceratop with her baby beside. It was a movable dino complete with sounds, that was defending her babies against a T. Rex (not pictured) who was going to attack her babies.
Above right: ds1 was very curious abt the skeletal "guy" sitting in the wheelchair and asked if he was real, so I asked him to go say hi and shake his hand, see if he is real. :-) Sorry about the reflective strip on his jacket that reacted to my camera's flash.
Above left: fossil bone locator used by paleontologists to search for fossils in the field.
Above right: ancient fish fossil
Above left: ds2 with the dinos
Above right: the woolly mammoth
Above left: Is the T. Rex a scavenger or a predator? Scientists are arguing about this present their sides.
Above right: the gold sluice area where kids can pay to pan for gold. They also have real geodes which you can buy as a whole rock and they'll split it for you. Very beautiful and they come in all kinds of sizes and patterns.
Above: they left inflated "eyeballs" all over the place and ds1 kept playing with the eyeballs.
Then we went out to the park and viewed all the dino sculptures. so many of them! The interesting thing is, there were real animals roaming around the whole park too, with the dead dinos. So there were the geese and ducks (above left), fish and other birds, and rabbits hopping away freely. Below left: there is a black bunny nibbling on the grasses.
Just like some of their books still incorrectly list Pluto as a planet. Anyway...
Above left: the Deinonychus attacking by jumping/ flying up and digging its sharp claws into the bigger dino. Small, but very fierce, and not scared of dinos much larger than them.
Above right: aquatic dinos.
Above: Allosaurus and Diplodocus death fight.After the information overload, more for me, cos I read all the exhibit signs while kids mainly just pretended to fight the various dinos, I let them role play at the sand pit.
The pit has sand covered fossils and various tools like brushes, picks, hammers and pails there for kids to pretend to be paleontologists.