Dinosaur tracks

In St George there is a museum that has preserved dinosaur tracks that were first found by a local resident Sheldon Johnson when he was doing construction on his property.  A bulldozer overturned a large slab of sandstone and on the other side were very large and distinct tracks.  Now there is a museum and a very large collection of  tracks from the area.  My sister Randolyn, her daughter Irelan, and my brother Jabe all went with Jace and Grace the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to see them.  (We also went again after Thanksgiving with Ryan's family--but I guess we didn't take pictures of that trip.)

 

So here you see them looking at the various displays. 

 

 

 

Jace's absolute favorite find in the museum was this Megalodon tooth. 

Megalodon was a giant prehistoric shark and Jace loves it.  He has watched The Discovery Channel's series about prehistoric animals and this is his very favorite.  I was surprised that he recognized the tooth right away.  I had to read the label, and sure enough he was right!  (FYI--Megalodon ate whales--he was that big)

Gracie thought the big slabs of rocks with the tracks were great fun to climb on, but since they were roped off and had big signs saying dont' climb or touch the sandstone, we contained her in this little children's area they had.

 

They had dinosaur puppets and crayons.

She was happy there until the rest of us finished looking around.  I should have taken some good pictures of the tracks.  Sorry, I didn't think to, but here you see two sets of different fossilized dinosaur eggs by Jace

 

 

and the picture Gracie snapped of me right before we left!