We got to take the guided tour. It goes along a 1.2 mile long road, and you can also walk the path if you don't want to pay for the tour. Basically in the 30's they blasted out the mountain to put a road in, and then realized there were a bunch of dinosaur footprints and bones and stuff in the mountain, so they closed the road and now it's walk only or take the tour. At the first stop there was a big wall covered in foot prints. They were painted in so they were easier to spot. Here's Winry checking her foot against a dinosaur, almost the same size!!
The second stop was more dinosaur footprints, but from below. It was pretty cool to see. They were from large dinosaurs, like brontosaurus. The final stop had dinosaur bones. They were still in the rocks in the mountain, and we got to touch them. In this picture we're sitting next to a vertebrae, pelvis, and mystery bone.
As we were driving back to base camp we drove past this little wire door thing, and I asked the guide what was behind the door. The answer? Just a velociraptor foot print. Oh wait, it's the only one in the US and one of three in the world... I'm really not sure how he didn't mention that when we drove by the first time!!
We had a great time, and definitely want to go back! We think next time we'd just walk it since that's always free and not that long of a walk though the whole thing. Also, then we'd get to see that velociraptor footprint! If you were going for your first time I'd definitely recommend the tour though!
We've spent several days playing in the leaf pile at home. I know I shared some pictures and videos last week, but I got a really great slow motion video of Brooke jumping in this past week!
In other big news, Tuesday night Winry got sick... VERY sick! She (and we) were up most of the night and she had a fever around 102-103. We took her to the doctor for fear of an ear infection and they said she looked fine. On Friday she still had a fever of 103, so we called and took her to the doctor again, and they checked her and said everything seemed normal, but her throat was really red, so they said probably just viral pharyngitis. I'm happy to say she's starting to seem more normal again, but she's still been sleeping terribly the last two nights even though she seems fine in the day... Hopefully she'll do better tonight, but last night we literally couldn't rock her to sleep and after about an hour had to just let her cry herself to sleep. :( Hopefully she does better tonight.
Thursday was Brooke's dance class. She told us in the morning she didn't want to go and didn't like it. After a bit of talking we eventually got the root of the issue. They do a song/dance each week with the lights off and glow sticks, and Brooke doesn't like that part, so we told her to go stand in the part of the room with a light, and she LOVED dance class this past week! Look at her go!
Preschool got moved to Friday due to one of the kids being sick, and this week was crazy hair day! Brooke had cupcake hair! Also, the picture behind (in front of?) her is her outline, and then she drew herself in! It's a great picture!
On Saturday Brooke and I headed to the leaf pile yet again. Almost all of the leaves have fallen off our trees, so I warned her it would soon be time to clean up all the leaves. Anyway, on Saturday she wanted to help rake the leaves in to a big pile! Basically mission accomplished.
Today (Sunday) Brooke put Elmo down for a nap in the swing, and Jelly just couldn't handle not having her spot. It was actually really funny to watch her get in there as she kept laying down and then squirming around to push Elmo to the side, but eventually she got her fair share.
Today the weather was very nice, so we took the kids to the park. Brooke wanted to swing right away, and the other swing was taken so I pushed her. I also had Winry bump her in the back when she swung back, and Winry LOVED it!! Hopefully you can hear the laughing.
Also, while there we put Winry down the slide. This may be her first time, I"m not sure. She was... iffy about it I would say.
Well, I think those are the highlights from the week. I think it's off to bed in case I get woken up hourly until 6 am... I think at this point I'd rather risk sleeping too long! ;)
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