Saturday April 1st (aka 14 Years)

[Greenguy]

Morning!

Up early as it's The Bitch's day to go in early & grab some OT.

Spent yesterday working on relaunching Booballistics. Might actually have that finished today

[ecchi]

I thought today's post would be my usual boring "work and dialysis" post, but then I went out and bought a new pair of trousers, so I have that exciting news to give you. But wait, it gets even more exciting, because I actually bought three pairs of trousers. Wow, what a wild, exciting life I live. I bet you lot are jealous.

[JustRobert]

Good Morning

I get to see my grandson today as we are taking him to go see dinosaurs.

That's all I got and quite frankly all I need for today

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

I get to see my grandson today as we are taking him to go see dinosaurs.

When I was a kid, there was a park a few miles from where we lived that used to be part of "The Great Exhibition" in 1851 (sort of like a Victorian World's Fair). One of the "wonders" the Great Exhibition offered was "life sized dinosaurs". These dinosaurs were as accurate as known at the time (we are talking 160 years ago when paleontology was a newish science). By the time I was born, most of the Great Exhibition had gone and the land was just a park. But the dinosaurs still exist, and visiting the dinosaurs was one of my favourite treats as a kid. So I hope your grandson appreciated his day out as much as I used to appreciate similar trips when I was his age.

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by ecchi

So I hope your grandson appreciated his day out as much as I used to appreciate similar trips when I was his age.

He did and thanks for that memory of your childhood. To me it was mediocre and they were not life sized (traveling basic animatronics display) but he still enjoyed it. I think we need to take him to a museum for complete dinosaur skeletons just so he can understand their size.

[Pagan]

Oh yeah... I have many many fond memories of going to see the dinosaurs at the Natural History museum in LA, and scaring my brothers with the mummies. We still preferred the Science and Industry just down the street with all its push buttons. I have never been to the one by the tar pits, but I hear it is spectacular.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Pagan

We still preferred the Science and Industry just down the street with all its push buttons.

Thanks for mentioning that. I'd forgotten about the thrill of running round the display cases in the London Science Museum looking for buttons to press (and the disappointment if it was a static display).