Dinosaurs! (by Cole)

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June 14th 2016

Published: June 16th 2016

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World's Largest Dinosaur

This is outside the visitor center in Drumheller, Alberta.

I woke up and we unhooked the Jeep from the RV and split up. Me and Mom went with the Jeep and Dad and Liam went with the RV. Me and Mom went geocaching and Dad and Liam went to meet us at a dinosaur museum in Alberta. We went in and started in an artificial forest and saw Albertosaurus and Triceratops and some smaller dinos. I went a little fast, then we saw water dinos and then we went through some kind of time portal, then we went to the cafe and then we split up again. Me and Mom took the Jeep again and Liam and Dad took the RV. Me and Mom went to find more earth geocaches and hoodoos and went to mines.

***Mom's note: The museum was the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, arguably one of the best "dinosaur museums" to which we have been. They have over 150,000 specimens, including many never before discovered. This part of Alberta is a hotbed of fossil finds for many reasons.

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Welcome to my travel blog! My husband Jeff and I waited six years after getting married before taking a vacation. It might have had something to do with being poor graduate students, or perhaps that we drove a 1991 Geo Metro. Anyway, we've tried to make up for it since. By the end of August 2008, he and I had been in the 48 contiguous states, as well as Hawaii. Along the way, we added Liam (2004) and Cole (2006), who had seen 47 and 46 states, respectively, by the end of October 2008. Eventually, we hope to travel outside of the United States. While we adore Canada, it barely counts as a... full info

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