Drumheller (Tues Aug 5)

Our first stop on our trip was Horseshoe Canyon The little tiny dots on the nearest green patch are my dad and the kidsZoomed in a little closer
These badlands are the richest fossil beds in North America, so Ethan was determined to find a dinosaur fossil here. Here they are looking
At the amazing Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
This is a full skeleton of a Tyranasaurus Rex they excavated nearby

You can actually watch them as they clean and prepare fossils here. Very cool!

The kids loved this ball launching area at the museum.

What it has to do with the museum, I'm not sure, but the kids loved it!!

But of course Ethan must use it for something other than it's intended use:

We of course had to visit the little church Seating 10,000 people.... 6 at a time.

The funniest part was the kids having a mock church meeting taking their turns at the pulpit. When I happened to look in I saw Ethan up front pounding the pulpit shouting "Have you been saved?!" LOL!

We also climbed up "the world's largest dinosaur"

See the kids on it's toe? Here we are looking out of it's mouth
And a trip to Drumheller wouldn't be complete without a trip out to the old mining suspension bridge.

The kids had fun swaying as they walked across the Red Deer river.
We stopped at the HooDoos too.
Phew! I'm getting tired just writing about it. We really packed it all in this day.
These sandstone columns are naturally carved by the wind
The orange and blue shirted boys are ours climbing around the hoodoos.
Wow! That was a long action packed day .