Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point

So what do you do when you made plans with your Grandma to fix her computer but she made other plans with other kids without inviting you? (I'm not bothered or anything by it, no. Haha) Well Larry looked up things to do around us and saw that the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point (really the Dinosaur museum) was having a shark-themed event today only so we decided to go check that out instead.

This museum is pretty cool, probably geared for an older crowd (as far as kids go) and man is it pricey! I was thinking of also doing the animal farm as well, but the museum alone was $20 per adult (granted it would have only been $24 if we wanted to do both attractions so...hindsight!). We walked through and just let Cara go at her own pace through each area. She definitely loves touching things so if she can, that's where you'd find her. She also LOVED walking along this log bench thing they had in one of the rooms. We even let her walk in this little kid tunnel area, but because you could see the log bench from there she'd just go straight back to the bench and just walk back and forth...over and over....until we made her stop haha.



Yeah, none of the tunnel photos
Weren't a tiny bit blurry

This was easily her favorite part of the
Whole museum

We ended up going through the museum twice because we couldn't find the shark stuff and then when we did find it, it definitely wasn't something for Cara's age. They had TONS of cool things for kids to do, but Cara was just a tad too young for it. I hope it's something they'll do again when she's old enough to appreciate it and actually participate with it. The good news about going through twice was the second time we found a little kid area that had a water and sand table with dino figurines and so we let Cara go play in that while we sat off to the side (I totally got a flash for when she's in school and has real friends and I won't be her best friend anymore and it totally pulled at my heart strings!). Cara LOVED this as well. She kept playing with the one dinosaur we gave her in the beginning and, when she could reach it, she'd splash in the water. It was cute to watch her play, even though she ignored all the other kids (because she just doesn't see them as people to play with yet).

In the end, I'm glad we went, but I think I want to get a membership to Thanksgiving Point to make the price of these things worth it if we are planning on going as much as we might want to. I can see it being such a good area to visit as Cara (and her little sister) get older and I want to teach them different things.