Jurassic Park

Well, for Labor Day, we decided to take the kids to Utah's own Jurassic Park - George Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden. We woke to pouring down rain and heavy chances of thunderstorms. I, in my wisdom, decided this would be a great day to go to a 13 acre outside park, with two small children, as it wouldn't be too busy.

As we clambored into the car and started to drive, the grey clouds turned more of a blackish color in nature. When we pulled over for gas and Erik was literally sopping as he filled up the tank, I started to doubt myself just a tad, but we forged onward. (Bless Erik's heart for going along with my idea and not saying a word against it!)

As we pulled into Ogden, after a small 10 mile detour going the wrong way (darn your directionally-challengedness google maps) the sky was beginning to clear and it turned out to be a beautiful day.
It took about 1/2 the park for Rylie to finally get upset because they weren't "real" dinosaurs. (I know, a bit backwards!) But we were eventually able to convince her that these were a much better alternative to the real thing.Tyler has had a thing for dinosaurs ever since Auntie Carole gave him the "Berenstain Bears: Day of the Dinosaur" book. (A quite popular choice of his for his night-time reading). Tyler has never been afraid to speak his mind, as his daddy found out one night whilst reading said book:

Tyler loves to ask the name of every dinosaur on the page. Sometimes this takes some geniosity, as the book doesn't give you every name. One night is was getting late, but Tyler continued in his ritual to get every name from Erik. Erik was having a hard time remembering some of the dinosaur names and finally, for one of them, shouted out "its name is Megatron". Tyler gave him a complete look of disgust and eventually said "daddy, thats not a dinosaur, thats a transformer!" Needless to say, Erik did not repeat the offense.