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Look at the mug on that one! And the dinosaur's kinda homely too.
Dinosaur World was a bit pricey, but the place is brand new, and really nicely set up and clean. We walked through it twice. Wolfboy marveled at how lifelike the eyes on most of the animals seemed. And he was quite adept at picking out the carnivores from the herbivores based on physiology.
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Just another Saturday in Glen Rose. Displays like this one really helped stir the imagination. It was easy to conjure up mental pictures that were probably a lot like this one from hundreds of millions of years ago. Dinosaur World was Wolfboy's favorite stop in the trip.
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Wolfboy racing a Brachiosaurus. MOBB had been here before as a child, and saw these very statues. The footprints were mostly submerged in high water along the Paluxy River, though we did get a decent look at a few of them.
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"Oh yeah, you've got some bad plaque buildup in here, Mr. Rex. Charlotte, cancel my 2pm appointment..."
Not funny?
Should I have gone with an IRS joke...? Nah. No one laughs at those.
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One of the footprints... cool!
This is actualy a reproduction from some of the prints along the river. This one in particular, though, looks just like one of the prints we saw down in the shallow water.
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Wolfboy being chased by a T. Rex.
The ideas for these poses were his own, and he even had the patience to do them over after I filled up the memory on the camera the first time.
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Amateur paleontologist Wolfboy searching for fossils. He found a shark tooth, a gastropod, and some sort of spiny thing related to a starfish.
This was his favorite thing at Dinosaur World.
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A dinosaur prepares to cough up a hairball.
Ha!
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A cat livin' the life outside a barbecue joint in Glen Rose.
We had some mighty fine 'cue out there. I think the restaurant was called the Ranch House.
Later on that night Wolfboy and I hit the Sonic for ice cream.
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Wolfboy surveys his domain from an eatery at Fossil Rim.
I liked this place a lot. People broke the rules all over the place though, feeding any curious animal by hand (they'd told us only the giraffes were tame enough for that).
And Wolfboy and I snuck around one edge of a fence to get a good eyeful of...
...of...
a horny chicken.
Okay okay... it was an Atwater's Prairie Chicken, and it was cooing and doing its little mating dance.
Of all the horny birds I've ever seen, well, that was one of them.
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Finally, one of our visitors from near the end of the ride. I must say that giraffes just look STRANGE. They really have that look of critters that usually died out long ago. I mean, they've got these bulbous little horn things, those strange markings, gangly legs, and of course, that NECK. I think if men from another galaxy landed here tomorrow they wouldn't look half as weird as giraffes.
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3 comments:
And... giraffes have really long tongues, too.
You're right! Moments before this shot was taken this particular giraffe just stood there with his tongue dangling out of his mouth, like the very idea of another car with a bag of treats for him made him some sort of Pavlovian nightmare. That thing was purple and quite gross!
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