The Tangrens

They were having their 10th Birthday ( Red Butte Gardens was having their 25th )

What was hilarious is that randomly throughout the museum Dinosaurs would have party hats on. It made me laugh out loud every time. (Nothing at the gardens were wearing party hats)

K so here's my problem with Dinosaur museums and I guess palaeontology in general. This last picture is of a dinosaur named Supersaurus. Just like the name would indicate it's gigantic. Extremely impressive when seen in a dinosaur museum. I took pictures of it that didn't turn out because the thing is so huge. I ran down to the plaque to see just exactly how long they got and read that they didn't know what the head really looked like because they've never found a skull. Then come to find out that they've only found a couple of neck vertebrae and a shoulder girdle. How would you know what a dinosaur looks like with three bones? It's just estimation and hypothesis yet they present these complete skeletons. And don't get me started on dinosaur sounds. And these are the same people that say God doesn't exist because there is no proof? Come on! Ok hopping off my soap box.

I decided to put a cute picture of my boys rather than a good picture of me. :)

This dinosaur was much easier for Hyrum to pose with than the one at the other dinosaur museum. I have to say it was interesting to go to two dinosaur museums in such a short time. And honestly there is NO comparison. This museum was far and above better than the one at University of Utah. Of course you'll pay for it too. This one at Thanksgiving point is 3 dollars more expensive for adults and 4.50 more expensive for kids. And when you have a large family it adds up fast. But if you can do this connect pass...go to this one second. Trust me.

And another happy picture with the party going Tyrannosaurus Rex and his party going prey (and of course my boys).

Here's the dig pit at Thanksgiving point. Where the other one was a strip of digging along the wall, here it was an entire room and you walked into it to dig.

They had party games going on for the kids and as we were leaving Hyrum participated and got some candy

We met Derek's cousin at a park for lunch so she could meet Noah now that he's 5 months. It is downright pathetic that it's taken us so long to connect when they only live 40 or so minutes away.

Hyrum had fun playing and running with his cousins.

It was great to see them.

Our next stop was

We were excited to see what this was like. We've heard mixed reviews but we really liked it.

Kickin' it with the Jellies

(No idea why I took this straight on)

Finding Nemo

Hyrum had NO interest in touching the ray

But we convinced him to touch the star fish.

I didn't get many pictures since Noah decided that he needed to be held rather than spend his days like this

and this

Really who can blame him but I did get a few

Our final stop was to the Thanksgiving point children's gardens and after going to the Red Butte children's garden Hyrum was all about it. Sadly they were having an "event" that night so we weren't able to get in. Bummer.

All together it would have cost us nearly $180 dollars to do what we did ( had we gotten into the children's garden at Thanksgiving Point it would have been closer to $200) but with the Connect passes it cost us just over a hundred. Not bad for a vacation.

Done!