It was a pretty interesting weekend - saurusly speaking....
The company I work for had their Family Day at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller.
I highly recommend it to anyone - it's a fabulously fascinating place and has something for everyone of every age.
We arrived, received our badges for entry and went to see a short movie on the curators and staff of the museum, all of whom are world reknown in their chosen field - paleontology, orinthology, archeology...and all the other applicable 'ologies' ... my apologies.... *LOL*
We took part in a few of the sessions offered by the ATCO Learning Centre at the Museum:we got to be detectives in the 'Secrets of the Lost Valley', where we got to be dino CSIs trying to figure out where previous archeological digs were... there were boxes of rocks/fossils/shells that gave us clues as to where the previous digs had been - Way cool!
We also got to make a plaster cast of an actual dinosaur fossil. The educator was very patient with all the kids (it was a large class), they got to touch real fossils of hadrasaurs, trillobites, a t-rex arm and 'coprolite'... I find it quite interesting that there's not much difference between 'copro' and 'corpro'... heh heh.
You could definitely make a day of it - they also had outdoor excavations and fossil hunting in the 'badlands'.It was a great day and both the boys fell asleep on the drive back home.
Can't wait to go back again.
What do you get when you cross a dinosaur with a pig?
...Jurrasic Pork! * ba dahn dahn*
