A Dinosaur Named Sue

The past few months the St. Louis Science Center has hosted a special exhibit of "Sue the Dinosaur", a complete T-Rex fossil from the Field Museum in Chicago. She's not the "real" Sue from Chicago, but a casted replica.

Any hoodle..this really great exhibit with a life-size cast of the fossil, lots of information on how they found the fossil, theories on how T-Rex lived and of course lots of fun things for kiddos to do.

Luke loves dinosaurs, so when we saw this exhibit we knew we'd take Luke. Pair this with the fact that my Dad is a member of the Science Center...we went for next to FREE!
Here's Sue! She's pretty impressive. She's the most complete T-Rex ever found.

One of the exhibit they had set up for the kids was a chance to be a paleontologist! This is a word Luke is very familiar with....his class studied dinosaurs late last year. They talked about fossils and how paleontologists dig for the bones and use small tools to delicately remove the fossils from the soil. He does a great job describing all of this in great detail!

So my little paleontologist used toothbrushes and files to look for fossils in the rocks. It was hard work!

Because I was taking most of the pictures, Luke wanted to make sure Kate and I got in a couple! He's quiet the little photographer!

One more before we left.....Luke doing his best "rooooaaaaarrrrr"!