T-Rex Adventures at DMNS

I'm smiling because it's one less mouth to feed!
Way to take one for the team, Kaylee!

The American West is famous for dinosaur discoveries.  Wyoming, for example, is littered with ancient fossils.  Trilobite fossils are everywhere.  So many in fact, much of the roads consist of ground up 'stones' which are trilobite fossils.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science contains nearly two floors of dinosaur skeletons.  You are even greeted by a T-Rex skeleton in the entrance.  Last week Marie and the family were invited to the VIP premiere of "T-Rex Encounters" for her MacaroniKid newsletter.  The exhibit consists of 4 life-size robotic dinosaurs (2 raptors, 1 Triceratops, and 1 T-Rex) tied in with facial recognition software.  The dinosaurs react to the people's faces.

Nothing like having a Velociraptor stalking you while you walk past.  Get enough people near the Triceratops nest and 'Mom' start's having conniptions!  And nothing beats having a Tyrannosaur holler at you.  Crouch down in front of the T-Rex, and it will lean way forward and sniff at you, trying to determine if your edible or not.

Alora was the next to go, have to cut back on those
expenses so sacrifices must be made.

Pictures weren't permitted, but they do provide an auto-upload photo booth accessible via flickr.com, which is where these two pictures were downloaded.  I recommend going and bringing the family.  DMNS is a great way to spend the day anyways, and the T-Rex encounters was worth the visit.  One word of caution if you have smaller kids, these dinosaurs are lifelike, large, and loud, so have your younger children bring a stuffed toy in case they get scared.  As can be seen in the second picture, Arionna brought her stuffed snake.

And FYI, this isn't an advertisement for DMNS.  We had a blast and I wanted to share it.  I love DMNS and many things in Denver, there is so much to do.