This morning I took the kids to a wildlife preserve called The Heard, as we can get in free with our museum membership. They currently have an outdoor exhibition of animatronic dinosaurs, which was really cool! They have them lining one of their hiking paths, so you just wander around and happen upon them. It was just beautiful out there this morning, and the area is heavily wooded, and it felt like we were somewhere else altogether!
Here is Luken discovering the first dino!
Scary, isn't he??
Keeley's reaction:
Isn't she just so sweet and adorable???
Kids walking down the path:
Look at the TEETH on this guy!
Keeley, acting out "scary!:
And both of them together, being dinosaurs!
Finding another friend:
This one had some crazy claws!
And this one had bad manners...
He SPITS!
T-Rex - this one was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!
Next we visited the butterfly exhibit, full of native Texan butterflies!
Then we had a picnic lunch! There were picnic benches nearby, but I really wanted to have an old-fashioned lunch on the blanket!
Keeley, enjoying the grown-up water bottle!
Our lunch:
Luken, posing with a cracker:
Then we ventured inside, where they had a really cool room full of snakes. Well, the snakes were in their little plexiglass houses, but there were tons and tons of them. Rattlers and other venomous ones, and a giant constrictor, too! Luken loved looking at all of them!
They had a big "snake" that you could go inside of, and the kids had a blast running through it over and over and over again!
They also played with some plastic dinosaurs - Keeley dove right in and loved it!
After that we picked out a couple of small souvenirs - a wooden snake for Luken and a little dinosaur for Keeley, and headed home.
It was a great morning, and we will certainly go back there again!
3 comments:
What fun!!! I love Keeley's reaction. I picture her saying "Oh my!" in a Southern accent. I can't wait to go.
I'm still kicking myself for not knowing you were going to be there! It was great running into you and your cuties though! Your pictures are awesome as always! You should be famous! If you guys want to come out to Going Bonkers next week let me know! it's fun! I hope to get caught up with other things soon! :) Take care!
What fun! We did this not too long back....it was so much fun!
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