Our Walk With Dinosaurs

After the MMOT picnic we went home for a nap. A lot of our friends had been talking about a show down at the convention center called Walking With Dinosaurs and we had been debating going for weeks. Since Peter took a long nap we decided to take him down and see if there were any tickets for that nights show.


Walking With Dinosaurs is a stadium show that brings out life-size dinosaurs. They are HUGE! I think T-Rex was 3-4 stories tall. We lucked out and got a great ticket lady who said that Peter didn't need to buy a seat, then she found us an aisle seat with extra seats next to us anyway. Awesome!

Peter was a little tired and cranky because he was starting to get sick from playing without socks earlier in the day. He didn't know what to think when the lights went down and music started to swell. He was curious with a baby dinosaur hatched from an egg, but then a big dinosaur came out and ATE HIM! Oh NO! Peter did not like that one bit. He spent the first half hiding his face in mom's armpit and kept putting my hands over his ears. Poor boy!


During intermission he perked up a little bit. I brought out a brachiosaurus I brought from him and Peter marched it up and down our legs and arms growling at us. He even gave the dinosaur kisses. He must have seen SOME of the first act.

During the second act he turned around and watched the show still huddled in mom's lap but with his eyes wide open. We saw a pteradactyl, triceratops, stegasaurus...all the famous dinos. Of course they save the T-Rex for a surprise entrance at the end. It seems like he comes out of nowhere! All of a sudden there is a great big ROARRRRR!!! Peter nearly hit the ceiling! His fingers snatched my hand and flew it up to cover his ears and he watched the rest of the show with me muffling the roars.


We all had a lot of fun. The show itself and the special effects were cool. The dinosaurs looked amazingly real, better than I thought they would. But mostly I'm just glad that Peter didn't scream and cry after we spent the money on tickets. It obviously made an impact on him though. He likes to cuddle my Little Foot stuffed dinosaur when he goes to bed at night now. And he likes to shove his little plastic ones in our faces (and the dog and cat's) for kisses.

I even snuck a little video posted on the website if you want to see some of what we saw!