Natural History Museum

"Ah look he ish shmilink at uss"

23rd of Jan saw a jolly up to London for to see the dinosaurs! South west trains did a sterling job of delaying us by telling us of the signal failure at Clapham just after we had pulled away from woking station where we could have changed ARGGGGGGGHHHH. Never mind tho we made it just on time and met up with the other home edders under the diplodocus's head. First was the battle of the picnic table in the basement with possibly every school child in Britain vying for a table, then it was off to Dino Jaws. S had secured us an Ed disc which was fab coz it only cost us £3 to get in as opposed to the £21 it would have cost without the disc. Quite a good exhibit, quite short but worth a butchers! I would have been a little miffed if we had paid full price as some of the touch screen stuff didn't work and the interactive stuff was a bit random *so thanks again to S* but on the whole lots of animatronic dinosaurs including feathered velociraptors and dino poo! The kids had a ball rampaging round the museum and Sp and T were thick as thieves and had great fun play fighting. I loved that none of the kids seemed even the slightest bit perturbed by dinosaur heads poking out of a black screen, half skeletal, half flesh...........

I wanted T to get a feeling for the scale of them which I think he did.....not that you can tell what goes in or indeed goes on in the head of a 4 nearly 5 yr old boy!

This one was behind a screen warning us that younger and more sensitive patrons might find it frightening.....

I was expecting blood, gore, perhaps even mild sexual references but no....its a small dinosaur with a floppy lizard in its mouth....as you can tell T was PETRIFIED!!!!!!!! (although the floppy lizard did make it look very lifelike!)

Then it was off to the skeleton bit where we wandered around looking at the casts of fossilised dino bones.

H and T giving a lovely demo of what big buggers the dinos were!!!! Then it was off to have a gawp at the T-rex which was according to the museum a teenage size T-rex....wouldn't like to be around for his stroppy tantrums! So all in all a good day, really illustrated the size of the dinosaurs and gave a interesting adventure to add to our dinosaur project.