Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Dinosaur National Monument

I know, this happened over a month ago but at least you get to see it.  This was the start of our trip to Philmont.  We went through Vernal Utah, stopped and got a picture at the Vernal Temple (angel Moroni is on the other side, but we were on this side).


On to the Dinosaurs!  We got our Junior Ranger books and rode the shuttle up to big wall of bones.  
Here are the kids examining the wall, and filling out their booklets. 
Sam comparing his leg bone to the dinosaur leg bone.
 
Wall of bones!

We checked out all the information inside the exhibit hall, which contains the wall of bones, and then headed outside.  We decided to take the trail back, which was hot and dry and no shade and hot.  And Ben of course walked the whole way.  Along the trail we did see a couple of bones which was pretty cool.

All in all it was a nice little trip.  There is of course more to do at Dinosaur National Monument but we saw the dinosaur bones and the kids got the Junior Ranger program done and we left to continue our drive along highway 40. 
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