I'm not sure who originally thought of the Groupon, but he should be rich, if he's not already, for this fantastic brainstorm. I get several of these offers a day from different groups and most of them are junk. Really, how many massages and facials could one woman get, even at half price?? But every once in a while there's a gem. We got a fantastic deal on Liam's big boy mattress. We go to the movies for $20, which includes a large popcorn and two large drinks. And then, at the beginning of this month, there was this deal for Dinosaur World.
Dinosaur World is an attraction that's about 20 minutes from our house. We pass it all the time because it's on I-4, the main drag from Tampa to Orlando. Micah went once with some friends about a year ago but the rest of us hadn't gone. Frankly, I didn't want to pay full price to go, but then Half Off Depot said we could go for $4/person - meaning Micah, Tim and I could go three for the price of one. (Liam's still free.) I thought I would buy it for a Christmas present for the boys, but then after I purchased it, I noticed that the expiration date was October 31 of this year. Not so much working for Christmas. So in our crazy busy October, we squeezed in a visit Dinosaur World on a beautiful "fall" Florida afternoon.
First up was the fossil dig. Every kid gets a sifter and a small container. Then they get fifteen minutes and sift through the sand to find three fossils. They actually find a lot more, but they get to keep three.
Micah finding some good ones.
Liam got the hang of it too after first trying to just play in the sand. They each walked away with a shark's tooth, a fossilized clam, and a fossilized piece of plant.
Then it was off to walk around and see the dinosaurs. I have to admit, it was kind of cool. Not annual-pass cool, but cool just to see the size of what the dinosaurs might have been. Some were disguised in plants,
some were already fossils in the ground,
some were in the water,
and some were terrifyingly close to us on land. Don't worry - Liam and I scared this one off with a roar, while Micah covered his ears. I don't blame him. Our roar was pretty scary.
He got into it at the next dinosaur.
The T-Rex was pretty scary up close,
especially as close as Liam got!
Wooly Mammoth Micah and some orange dinosaur Liam.
In the middle of the park was a boneyard with a big dinosaur skeleton buried in sand. If you could deal with the hundreds of mosquitos inside, you could use brushes and shovels to find the skeleton.
Our archaeologists.
Getting to "roar" inside a dino head.
Monkey see, monkey do.
We ended the afternoon with a visit to the pumpkin patch. The boys each got to pick a pumpkin. Liam picked the little one in his hands. Micah picked one similar to the one next to him, so it's a good size pumpkin.
Next up? Carving the pumpkin!
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