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Dinos

                                                      Baby dinosaur. 

Tuesday ended up being really good........well mostly.
Our chum, Gary, had invited us to the zoo to see the dinosaurs.
He is a 'friend of Milwaukee zoo' and as such can take us in free.  He also gets invitations to special exhibitions.
Last summer the zoo put on an outdoor dinosaur display and it was brill.
It disappeared during the winter (too blooming cold and snowy to spend much time outdoors around these parts).
Anyway, he had an invitation to a preview of the new exhibit for this summer.
It was from 5.30pm onwards.  Firstly we had to go and vote.  I voted for the person I wanted  (see previous blog entry) and poo to everyone else.
When we got to the zoo there were queues to get in but it was so worth while lining up.
The display is even better this year.
This time while we were waiting outside, you could hear the roars and rumblings of dinosaurs from inside.
It was quite scary actually.
I found this lady holding a baby dino just inside the gate.
 I got really excited, much to Philip's dismay.
We found out after that this was one of a set of puppets that were putting on a show for the kids, at the end of the exhibit.
The rest of the dinosaurs were big and some, like these two, spat water.  The kids loved that.
There was an enormous, roaring T. Rex that had a nest of evil little snapping babies.
All of the dinosaurs were animated in some way.
Lots of fun.........and you exit through a gift shop.  What else?

On then to get something to eat.   We hadn't been to Perkins in an age so Philip thought we would go there and get some grub.
When we have been before it has always been for brekkie.
Maybe they do brekkies better.
It was awful.
Not only was it awful, but we had to wait an age for the awfulness.  The place was almost empty so we didn't know what could be taking so long.
Gary and Philip were just having fried stuff and I was having salad.
Poor Gary.  We were treating him to this as a thank you for taking us to the dinos.
Anyway, when asked as we were leaving if everything was ok we told them it was awful.
They admitted they were having problems and gave us 20% off.
We felt a bit happier about it then but it was a shame as it nearly spoiled a lovely evening.

posted by Sue Banks @ 3:29 PM