The Dinosaur Museum

We drove up to Woodland Park (a short drive into the mountains above Colorado Springs) to see the dinosaur museum this weekend.  It was "Critterfest" day at the museum so there were a lot of dogs and other animals there. 

My favorite thing was this wolf, Apache, from an organization that rescues wolves.  He was BIG and later we found out he was small for his age.  We went to a little lecture about wolves and we found out wolves are not naturally aggressive (I still don't think I want to meet a hungry one in the wild) but domesticated dogs are, and have been bred to be.  It was interesting learning about the wolves.

Here are the kids petting a hedgehog.  A smaller critter.

And inside the dinosaur museum.  There were a lot of cool exhibits!  Here is a T Rex skull!

I think this one was a Pteranodon

This one is an Anna with a dino-head.

An I don't know what

And a T Rex

Scott and I were also interested to find out that Brontosaurus is now called Apatosaurus.  :)

On the way out of the canyon we stopped at Pikes Peak Gourmet Popcorn!

And I don't know why we thought it was a good idea, but we also drove down to Pueblo to check out the lake there.  The lake looked nice, but the swimming area was very sad and gross.  Don't think we'll go back.  Matthew and Anna were very disappointed to leave though.