Dinosaur Valley

Last weekend, we drove two hours southwest of here to Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas. I was hoping to get more glipses of some fall color. The Dinosaur aspect was merely a ploy to entice the children into wanting to go to a state park :) It worked. They were so excited about a trip to see dinosaur footprints.

And here they are.....

Yup. We were a little underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong. They are pretty cool, but we were hoping to be able to stand in one. But they were covered in water and roped off so that you couldn't get too close to them

None the less, we went hiking along the river some - searching for the North Texas Wild Penguins (NTWPs) who finally annialated all the dinosaurs in Texas.....Payton was pretty quick to squash Daddy's stories about NTWPs. Payton informed us that dinosaurs died out because it got too cold for them. And as hard as Daddy tried to persuade her otherwise, she stood her ground. Ian really didn't believe Daddy either, but he didn't have the comeback that Payton did.

 Ian had just jumped into the river and gotten his shoes and pants wet. He wasn't up for a picture.

We had a nice picnic lunch and checked out the park. It wasn't a huge park, but the tall grass was pretty fascinating.

Gladiator, anyone?

On the way out we took a picture with the resident dinosaurs. Payton was pretending to roar like one....