Dino Day

About a month ago L had dinosaur week at preschool. The school had
borrowed a trunk full of dinosaur fossils from the Burke Museum at
the UW. His teachers told me it was a great museum so I checked out
the site.

On the site I saw an ad for Dino Day. A one day event where they take out everything they have on dinosaurs. It sounded perfect for the boys.

Today we braved some late season snow, or grouple as some would
say, and waited in line outside with the masses for Dino Day. We
headed over to the fossil dig first. The boys got to chisel some
shale looking for some fossils. We didn't find anything but they had
a table of fossils and each boy got to have one.

L chose the redwood fossil on top. H chose the alder leaf on the bottom. They were taken from a lake that was covered in volcanic ash in Republic, WA.

The museum was packed to the gills. The place should have a dino week, not just a day. There was a line waiting to get into the museum when we left.

I think we would have gotten a lot more out of it if it hadn't been so crowded.