Bring on the T-Rex!

So last Friday I won tickets to this arena show called "Walking with Dinosaurs." I won them through a radio contest - I called on a whim, and I won them. I had no idea that people actually won those things. I'm glad I did, because it was pretty awesome, and the tickets were mucho dinero - I estimated our seats were roughly $60 a ticket before all of those amazing Ticketmaster fees.

The show consisted of giant, life-size puppets of dinosaurs roaming around an arena with an actor, who was playing a paleontologist, narrating the whims of science and history (supposedly - we all like to theorize about what really happened.) Frankie thought it was pretty great. I thought it was way better than having to go to something like princesses on ice. (We're going to avoid princesses as long as possible, for ideological reasons.) Besides, I was a dinosaur girl as a kid, so this was right up my alley!

Frankie and I, before the show. Frankie is showing everyone what a free ticket looks like.


Some random dinosaur - if you look, you can see that there was a tiny car-like structure moving the dinosaur; Juston figured that there was actually a person driving the car around, and then probably a puppeteer inside of the dinosaur moving the legs, tail, head, and creating expressions on the dinosaur's face.


Stegosaurus!


Intermission...when I went to buy popcorn.


Finally, you make us wait until the end for the T-Rex!


T-Rex menaces a Triceratops and an Anklyosaurus.


On the way out....



I'd say it was a smashing success!