It’s raining, it’s pouring, the dinosaurs were roaring?
Close enough.
We had a Saturday morning where all our plans were unexpectedly cancelled, but there was a dinosaur event in town… so obviously we checked it out. We walked into a room with some animatronic dinosaurs bouncing up and down and making noises. The kids spent a while trying to pet them and pretended to feed them, but much like trips to zoos with actual animals, they eventually got bored. Tom’s favorite exhibit was a little toddler that walked around roaring at everyone, but even that got old after a while.
The second half of the exhibit was a bit like an indoor playground, but considering the poor weather outside, that was fine. There were three different bounce houses that the kids loved. One was a giant slide that F went up and down over and over. There was an obstacle course one, and a few had giant inflatable dinosaurs in them.
At one point G came out of a bounce house with a bloody lip and his hair and shirt was soaking wet. Sweat? Water? We tried asking him what happened, but if you know G you know that we got zero answers. Had he fallen? Did he run into another kid? No idea, but he was looking rough. After approximately 4 seconds, he was back in, though.
There was also a mini golf that I tried at one point, but it just so happened to be when it blew a fuse and deflated. The kids played later while I was waiting in line with F for these little dino cars that you could drive around. I tried to help her drive it but was waved off by the person running the ride. “She’ll figure it out” he told me, and she definitely did.
Definitely one of our most random activities this summer, but probably one of the kids favorite.
