This is Sue, on display at the Field Museum in Chicago.

My husband and I visited the Field Museum in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and WHAT a time we had. It was a frigid, rainy, blustery day, and we suspected that the joint would be packed just like the experience we had at the Shedd Aquarium the day before. Rainy day + want to play tourist = indoor museum, right?

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Two Brachiosaurs with the narrator “Huxley” in a scene from WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - The Arena Spectacular

They roamed the arenas of Los Angeles once upon a time…2 years ago.  Since July of 2007, the Walking With Dinosaurs live show has toured North America, astonishing audiences with the size and realism that only a show built by 50 crewmembers – including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts – over the course of one year can bring.

After their sweeping tour of the continent and an addition of a duplicate show overseas, Walking With Dinosaurs will wrap up its run right here in the southland with shows at Honda Center in Anaheim, CA September 1 to 5, followed by seven performances at STAPLES Center in downtown Los Angeles, September 9 to 12.

My friend R. brought his family to see the how at Staples center in 2008.  “When the dinosaurs enter the stage you get chills,” he said.  And with a son who is an dino-enthusiast, Read More »

photo courtesy of Yale's Peabody Museum

The Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, CT is about one thing and one thing only:  the dinosaur exhibit.

Duh.

Okay, fine.  There are rooms of decades-old taxidermy for children to marvel at.  One child in particular kept running back to the polar bear, mischievously scheming to get behind the barrier and elude the docent who sat at its side.

There are also interactive weather and geography exhibits.  Native American artifacts found right in this area.  A discovery room where kids can touch things and watch live video taken from inside an ant colony.

Oh, there are photos and fossils and diagrams and such that are appealing to adults but if you are a parent of young children you will not get to see, for example, the latest addition to the museum, Read More »

Ohio.  I’ve never cared for it much.  I’ve had some bad JuJu up there.  But, perhaps, possibly it’s not the fault of the state itself as the fault of a Young Man with reckless abandon and “being a Bear of very little Brain.”  But still…….

So when the trip to Six Flags – Kentucky Kingdom was washed away in a deluge of angry cumulonimbus tears, and the children stood with sad eyes and tapping feet and bad intentions, well, we had to Go somewhere.

Enter Ohio. Read More »