Museum of Ancient Life

This is a very belated post, but I had lots of pictures to go through and other things on my list to do. While we were on our trip to Idaho/Utah we went to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point just south of SLC. ( You can read more about it here http://www.thanksgivingpoint.com/visit/museum_of_ancient_life/about/museum_facts.html ). It was one of the only times we got our camera out while we were on the road (which is sad, because we should have made more of an effort to get more pictures). So here are some highlights from our visit. The first thing we did was attend the 3D movie about dinosaurs--Jace was glued to the screen, but Dallon was a little scared and covered his eyes a few times. Then we headed through the exhibits.

You could build your own dinosaur with different heads, legs, tails and horns/spikes. Very fun, and the boys were really into it.

What a masterpiece!

Both boys seemed to really enjoy the minatures and hands-on exhibits, but who can blame them!

Jace assembling a model skeleton (the best he could, I had a hard time with it!).

Model skeleton assembly table, we worked at it for a while before we all gave up and went on to other easier things :)

Jace loves dinosaurs, and especially liked the real-looking statues they had there.

Dallon showing us how his teeth look like the ones on display...

The Utah Raptor--scary! I didn't know that they never put the real bones on display at museums (not even in cases). Everything you see is a cast of what they have in archival storage.

Bianca came with us, and she seemed not too impressed by the museum. But she was a trooper and attracted quite a lot of attention.

In front of the museum we took a chance to take some pictures of eachother before we went inside.

Other than the museum, we did some other activities while traveling. We visited another 4 Paws family who is waiting for their training date in December. They live in Lehi, UT and we met through the 4 Paws yahoo group. They were a wonderful family, and I'm so glad we got to meet them! We plan to go back for another visit when we are in UT for Kaylee's wedding in June.

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We stayed a couple of nights at the Red Lion in Pocatello, which turned out to be great fun. We had Jeremy and Liz Branson's family and Colton and Whitney come over and swim with us. Dallon and Jace had too much fun, and were wiped out after more than 3 hours in the pool! We also all picked up a stomach virus while there (as did most everyone else in Pocatello it seemed!). That cut back on a lot of our play time, but we survived and were all feeling better before we headed to Utah. We visited lots of family and friends and stayed busy. We didn't get to do everything we wanted, so when we go back for Kaylee's wedding we'll get to see more family and maybe do a little more playing--and with a new baby too!