Walking with (what else?) Dinosaurs

Last night was the big show - Walking with Dinosaurs. We bought three tickets and presented them to William for his birthday, thinking that it would be either me or Jay (depending on weather and if I wanted to drive to SLC), Henry and William. Somehow Henry assumed that the third ticket was for whomever William chose to invite, as in a friend from across the street or Primary or preschool. Not the case, but when William invited Henry to go along and said "it wouldn't be the same without Henry", it sure was cute.

So, anyway, the show. Amazing! Really and truly, I've never seen anything like it. It was a little dry at times (the narrator was a "paleontologist" who talked us through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods) but the dinosaurs were incredible. The smaller dinosaurs - one that William calls an Oliviasaurus for some reason (but I'm sure that's not right), the raptors, and the baby TRex - were actually people in dinosaur costumes, but they were so well done that it was pretty easy not to get hung up on that. The big dinosaurs were very life-like. There was some dino-fighting, but no bloodshed. Not that this would have bothered William - he's addicted to the show Jurassic Fight Club on the History Channel and they show fairly realistic, computer animated dinosaurs, fighting and bloodshed and all. Anyway, it was very fun and by the time the mama TRex made her appearance to protect her baby from being whacked by an angry ankylosaurus, even I'm-to-cool-to-applaud-Henry was clapping and whooping it up. We really enjoyed the show and highly recommend it if you get a chance to see it.