Dino Mania

The weekend after the 4th, Jared and Liz and the kids came to our house for a fun visit. Madeline is in love with the PBS show Dinosaur Train and Jared and Liz decided to have a fun little dinosaur trip. And when you think dinosaur, you think Carbon County, right? Well, okay. maybe not, but you should. :) (also, the main exhibit in Vernal is closed for remodeling) We headed on over to the CEU Prehistoric Museum and had a good time there checking out all the skeletons and other fun stuff.Then we headed over to the Dino-Mine Adventure park where the kids had a great time sliding down dinosaur tails, swinging on the swings and playing on the monkey bars. Only bad thing that happened that day was that Liz left her camera there. :( So all her pictures from the day are gone. Poop!!

After a night of good food and styrofoam picking (hehehe), we left the next morning for the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. ( Taylor is MIA. She went with Grandma Bonnie to the Scottish Festival that day.)checking out a replica of a dig site

so strong!

The visitors center is the most exciting part about that place. If you have older kids, the rock walk is good, but with all the little ones we had with us, there wasn't that much to do there. We ate lunch at one of the picnic tables and then jumped back in the van to head off to the Museum of the San Rafael. Only to pull into the parking lot 2 minutes AFTER they closed!!! Grrr. Sorry Jared and Liz. Next time I guess. :(

On our way back home, we stopped by the farm to show Madeline and Bradley the chickens.that Madeline is such a poser :)

When we got out there, Neil was moving some dirt and came across a bird's nest in the rocks. Very cool.
Thanks for the visit Jared and Liz. We had a great time. We love it when people come our way every now and then. :)