Our March Break Part 2

For the second half of our March Break my Dad wanted to take L to The Royal Ontario Museum while they had their new Dino exhibit.

The exhibit had dinosaurs that most people have never even heard of since they were found in the southern hemisphere.
So the family woke early and piled into my fathers truck and we headed to Toronto for the day. This was the first time that L went downtown and my dad decided that he needed the whole Toronto experience so We parked at the Finch station and took the Subway.

The look of amazement on my child's face will forever be burned into my brain. He was so excited to ride a train and the fact that it went underground made it that much more exciting to him. When we did peek out from underground he was amazed at how fast the train could go.

Once we were downtown and reached the street L could not believe the size of the buildings, the whole way down to Toronto my dad told L that the Dino's were in a concrete jungle so when he saw all the buildings he kept asking where the Dino's were until he finally saw a sign for the exhibit on the side of the ROM.

Now a little back story about my dad, myself and the ROM. When I was about six or seven my dad took me to Toronto for a weekend to go to the ROM, the observatory and to a baseball game and ever since then I knew what some of the things I loved learning about where. I LOVE HISTORY and everything that goes with learning about it, and the chance to have L experience something that I love was amazing, but to have him do it with my dad was even better.

While at the ROM, L got to see over 20 different Dino's that he had never really read the name of before and they were all interactive with tablets and 3D images.

The Tablets that the ROM had for their interactive display 

What they looked like on display. The words reflected for picture taking  

More of the interactive displays 

They showed what they would look like sized to something from now

Fossils in mold

Once we finished the exhibit we all decided to check out their permanent collection which L loved just as much since they were all the ones he knew and could name without help at all. When I say he can name them I don't mean the things that we learn in books, movies or on TV, I mean he can say their Scientific names  and has no problem correcting you when he knows you're wrong.

His favorite from the permanent collection, a Triceratops  

While we were visiting the permanent collection he got to touch a real fossil that has not been reproduced. He got to feel the way time made rivets on the bone. He then got to take part in identifying different skulls from cavemen to wollymamaths.

L had a great time and so did Andrew, my Dad and myself. I wish this exhibit could have stayed longer so we could have gone back again.

To learn more about the exhibit that we saw please go to...... Ultimate Dinosaurs

At the site you will find information about the items used for all the technology and even some learning resources.