Dinosaurs & Safaris

Camping

We went camping at Dinosaur Valley and had a really good time. There were no major issues this time!! We had S'mores...which you can see all over Ryan's face!

And we even fed racoons.

But, according to the boys, the best part of the entire trip was eating Pop Tarts!! We rarely eat them at home, so it was a big treat getting to have them every morning! Dinosaur Valley

Dinosaur Valley is on the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, TX. They have found real dinosaur footprints dating back over 100 million years in the area...most in the Paluxy riverbed. This is a footprint of a dinosaur related to the T-Rex.

These are related to the brontasaurus.

Brock and Ryan thought the dinosaur tracks were cool, but they LOVED playing in the river. Have I told you before that they are little water bugs?!?!

Dinosaur World

This is pretty new to the area. It is a path through the woods that has life-size dinosaurs (most of them are families). It was pretty cool.

Ryan & Brock in the mouth of a T-Rex.

This was a brachiosaurus family with a T-Rex on his way! Notice the little baby brachiosaurus drinking from the pond.

I think this was the Allosaurus family.

T-Rex, of course!

Can't remember the name of this one, but it's pretty scary, eh?
It also had a dig pit where the kids could dig for fossils...mainly shark teeth and shells. They get to keep three fossils that they find. They loved it and came home with some cool shark teeth!

Fossil Rim

We went to Fossil Rim Wildlife Refuge in Glen Rose, TX this past week. We had been there a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. The boys remembered the ostriches from the last time and couldn't wait to see them again. They didn't disappoint...they came right up to the window and started banging on it until we threw them some food!

We got to feed a lot of deer. They were so gentle...it was amazing.

But the most amazing thing was feeding the giraffes. It is incredible how such a big animal can be so gentle. This huge giraffe had his whole head in our car...really cool!!!

Steve got to feed a baby giraffe.
A video feeding the giraffe

They also had a petting zoo where we saw goats, parrots and turtles. The boys got to touch this one.