Royal Tyrrell Museum (aka The Happiest Place on Earth)

We made our annual summer trip to Drumheller to visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and A loved every minute of it. We are so lucky to live so close to Drumheller considering we have a little girl who is absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs.

Here she is studying the underwater exhibit. The prehistoric seas have really perked her interest recently.

Here she is next to a Camarasaurus leg bone! This is something new that wasn't there the last time we visited. Incidentally, it was very crowded around this bone as people waited to take their picture next to it, which is why A isn't smiling. I think she would have preferred to have more time to look at it carefully, but the crowd got to her.

Here she is speaking with a palaeontologist who had different specimens for people to touch. This boy next to her seems to have a love and knowledge of dinosaurs almost as much as she does!

Afterwards, it was time for the dinosaur water park in Drumheller. She LOVED it, and the weather was perfect. 29 degrees and sunny, sunny, sunny, And luckily, not at all busy at the time we went. Here she is at the spray park.

Here she is being a liopleurodon in the wading pool.

Here we are after the boys in the background got us really good with their water guns. Really, it was more like a water missile launcher. Funny how we are fleeing in different directions. Clearly it was everyone for themselves.

I love it when we don't have to prompt her to smile.

See? It is the happiest place on earth.

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