Thanksgiving Point

For our first day in the mountains Mitch had high hopes of taking us all to Olympic Park. But it was COLD, really cold. We woke up to snow capped mountains. So we had to go with Plan B. And plan B didn't turn out to be half bad. Mitch took us to Thanksgiving Point. There are several things to do in the area, but the girls were really looking forward to the Dinosaur Museum. Okay, that's not the official name, but I can't recall the ACTUAL name right now.

It was great. They had cast of several ancient life animals but had a fair number of the real deal too. Did you know there was really a Utahsaurus, for real. And we saw the skeleton of the largest turtle every found. The girls thought it was great. They had so many different activities for the kids to do. They had a water table complete with sand, and buckets and shovels to play with miniature dinosaurs in. They had a large velcro exhibit where you could make your own dinosaur. And at the end they had two enourmous areas where kids could dig and uncover fossils with all the right tools. They loved it. And I loved that we weren't outside in the freezing cold.