Dinosaur Park

My kids have always loved dinosaurs. Because all kids do.

And then this show came out last fall on PBS:

And then they no longer just loved dinosaurs. Dinosaurs became the hot thing around this house.

Dinosaur Train has been our very favorite show for months around here.

It's even taken the beloved place of Curious George in the whole "you can only watch one show this morning, what do you want to watch?" slot.

And because of this show/dinosaur obsession:

They both want to be paleontologists now.

They like to play "dinosaur" together... Grace is usually a pteranadon, Adam's a velociraptor.

They like to request "carion" as a snack.

They walk around spouting off random dinosaur names, like "Confuciusornis."

They can be regularly find them digging for fossils in our front area.

Unfortunately, the apartment manager doesn't understand that this is a part of their paleontology-education.

Bummer.

Last week I happened upon a dinosaur-themed park here! And I knew I just HAD to take the kids. We've lived in Las Vegas for 3 years and this is the first I've heard about it!

I'm very disappointed in all of my LV peeps for withholding this place. But I'll forgive you. ;)

We went today and were NOT disappointed! It's our new favorite park!

And that's saying a lot, because Las Vegas is full of fun parks.

They dug for dinosaur fossils, ran through a triceratops head, climbed dinosaur eggs, ran through a t-rex's rib cage, played in the alligator/snake splash area, and did slides/swings thing... in "hut" playground equipment.







It was awesome.

To solidify it's title as the best park EVER, they had a huge pond/waterfall with ducks, geese, and TURTLES!



We loved the turtles!

We spent a few hours there and loved it! And even though it's not exactly down the street (it's about 16 miles away), the kids are already begging to go back. Fun stuff!