Leigh had most of last week off which, with the exception of a couple of days, we spent mostly chilling out in Ralston. With lots of sunny weather and a fairly decent size pool in the garden we had another great week. We also had a visitor for a few of days - Ed Robinson who was out here 'working'(!) for a week.
We did eventually get off the garden chairs for a couple of days and visited the Provincial Dinosaur Park in the Canadian Badlands at Drumheller. It's about a 2 hour drive from here and is a really amazing place.
Apparently more dinosaur bones have been found there than anywhere else in the world and excavation is still ongoing. Some of the bones & fossils found there date back 70-90 million years. The Provincial Park itself resembles a mini Grand Canyon and has these really unusual rock pillars called Hoodoos, which also took around 70 million years to form. There is a great museum there too full of the dinosaur
skeletons which they have dug up. Whilst the children really enjoyed the museum, they were less interested by the amazing scenery & Hoodoos and much more keen to get to the nearby Go-Carting track! The Provincial Park is also home to the worlds largest (plastic!) dinosaur (left) which you can climb up inside and view the park from its jaws! If you enlarge the picture you may just be able to make out me and the children at the bottom of it!
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Were you eaten by the Dinosaurs? Rather late with the latest update & news!
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