Fair Park-Museum of Nature and Science-Dinosaurs Unearthered

Beautiful Fall day at Fair Park.
Walking around outside-checking things out.
In the Science building doing some hands on experiments. We must have spent at least 45 minutes in this area. They both loved it.
The main museum focus for us was the Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit. Henry was beyond thrilled! This is in the Ocean Dallas exhibit room.
This is the skull of an enormous ancestor of the crocodile.
Outside the Nature building "riding" on the elephant statue.
She saw some big kids posing like this, so that's what she did for her picture with the elephant statue.

Enjoying the fairgrounds again. Running around the fountain.
The weather was great yesterday, so we were outside as much as possible.
Waiting to go check out the fountain.
There are various little garden areas down the path we took and we investigated each and every one of them.
They remembered the Cotton Bowl and the Texas Star from when we were here a few weeks ago for the State Fair of Texas.
There were two huge squid like statue things on each side of the small pond/lake and we had to explore both several times.
Some Texas Fall color.
Henry was in awe of the T-Rex. We had to look at it from all angles.
A momma and baby triceratops. They both thought these were pretty neat.
Henry was so excited. He was go, go, go all the way through the exhibits. Had to see everything.
If the bamboo polls weren't in place, my children would have been up there exploring the dinosaur bones.
Henry was reassuring Emma that it was only a robot and not real. Emma wasn't liking the sound effects of roaring dinosaurs.
"Look Mommy, it's a T-Rex!!! My favorite! Look at his teeth!"
Digging for dinosaur bones in the activity center. I'm thinking that they both could have stayed here all day and had a blast but we had more to see.

T-Rex skeleton. I wouldn't want to run into one of these. But it was really cool to see.
Henry is finally starting to understand just how big dinosaurs were compared to us. He thought it was too cool!
Playing in the sandbox in the children's museum. There are different areas for the kids to explore and learn in.
Sliding down from the firetruck.
They had fire chief hats and turn down jackets for the kids to wear. Henry thought it was great. Emma decided to skip playing dress up for this one.
My little fire chief!
There is a water activity learning center and they played there very briefly. I think they were bored by this one.
Riding the horses in the farm area.

Daddy(Jason) had a robot competition(DPRG-Dallas Personal Robotics Group) this weekend at the Science building at Fair Park. So we tagged along because we've been to at least one other competition and the kids liked it. This time around they weren't digging it as much though, so luckily we had other things we could do. While Daddy competed, we went and did some exploring in the exhibits and around the grounds of Fair Park. It was a good day for the most part. We had a few issues, but made it through the day. I'll say this, I'd prefer to have another set of hands when we do adventures like this.

Daddy didn't win in any of the categories he entered, but had a good time. He's been pretty busy with work and didn't have much time to work on his robot entries. He'll be better prepared next time.