Dinosaur Valley

Well, of course - what family with a couple of boys wouldn't enjoy a place called Dinosaur Valley State Park! What a fabulous place - it made for a great, and very hot, Texas Saturday!



Above are Erick and Evan sitting in dinosaur tracks - these were some of the biggest that we saw...



Most of the tracks were actually in water - in this beautiful and very cool and refreshing river. It was really a lot of fun walking through the river looking for tracks.... can you kind of see the three-toed track to the right of Preston, up a little? Way cool to walk where the dinosaurs once walked!



But of course, in between searching for tracks we had to take a dip in the river! Outside AND water - my boys couldn't have been happier! Okay, so there was a spell where my six-year old son could have been happier, but oh well - it was hot, and he was very excited... and he got over it! Oh, one day I will laugh as I look back at my six-year old rolling his eyes at me and stomping away... but I'm just not ready to call it "funny" yet! Ha!



We went with our friends, the Sutherlands - here are the kids enjoying the river.



Below - Evan absolutely LOVED his first ride in the backpack! He never made a peep, just fell asleep when he got tired and then woke up and enjoyed the ride... thanks Daddy for being our baby mule! Hee hee!



It was such a beautiful place with all sorts of rocks and trails to hike through... you could easily spend a couple of days exploring.



Here's Daddy pointing out some more tracks to Preston...



So, after visiting the actual park area we had to make one more stop... we had seen signs for it all the way in to the park.... but what else other than DINO WORLD! How could we resist?



And although it was incredibly hot - yes, still hot, Dino World had literally over 100 life-size dinosaurs replicas on this beautiful trail... the kids enjoyed seeing all the different types of dinosaurs - so many that I have never even heard of.... and believe me, having a six year old boy - I've read about some dinosaurs!

And probably Preston's favorite thing of the day was at Dino World - the kids got to "dig for fossils". Preston found three shark teeth - they are a prized possession and have a special place in our home!



If you haven't been... it's really something you should put on your calendar... but I'm thinking we'll go back in the Fall or Spring! A great relief was dinner and treats at Dairy Queen on the way home... yummy!