Those who know Ashton, know that he is crazy, crazy about dinosaurs!! So you can imagine his excitement when Tia Monica told him the dinosaurs had arrived at the Australian Museum.. for months he had been asking to visit the museum. I was a little worried because for a while there his favourite movie was "A Night At The Museum". I was concerned his expectations might be the same, but after much discussion he understood that the dinosaurs would not come to life and was happy to still visit.
The day was great. The museum was very hands on, everyone had a blast. Logan kept saying "ook, ook"Fascinated with everything she saw.
The first dinosaur we encountered was the Brontosaurus... Ash demonstrates his long neck
When we hit the dinosaur exhibition I have never seen Ashton's eyes move so fast from one spot to the next... it was hard to keep up with him. We spent a good while there looking at fossils, Dino skeletons, teeth, claws... unreal!!! They had a large projector with a reenactment of a fight that took place in QLD hundreds of years ago. Ashton had to watch it twice!!
This one is from Argentina Lelo!
One corner was called the lab you could create your on dinosaurs on a computer, Dig for fossils, read dinosaur books and examine a large plaster of a mountain where they found bones, claws and fossils they had this expedition on a slide show.. pretty fascinating!! Ashton says he wants to dig up dinosaurs when he is bigger... I keep trying to teach him the title 'Paleontologist' after all he has to learn to say it before he can be it!
Ashton's favourite dinosaur is the T.Rex (what 4 year old boy's isn't!) so when we hit the carnivores GRRRR lots of fun until...
...Until Mr REX tried to eat Ash! AHHHHH run for your life!!!! 
The Museum also offered a kids spot where there where various stations to explore. Insects, feathers, stories, dinosaurs, magnifying glass, under the sea, and drawing... Logan went straight to the drawing... guess where Ashton played??
Like I said.. DINOSAUR CRAZY!!
3 comments:
Looks like a great day out, Ashton looks so happy, but did you take the time to explain to him that he is going to have to be his sisters date when the fairies come to the museum? (:
I agree looks like you guys had a blast! Im glad the kids enjoyed it. Will was saying that we should have gone but i was telling him that it was a family thing and so he now whats us to do the same and go to the aquarium. We'll see... :)
hey Alison - isn't the dinosaur exhibition great!!! Glad I found your blog - makes it easier to keep in touch! I'm rscping to Portia's baby shower too!!! I'll confirm with an sms again too just in case you don't read this comment :0!
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