Kansas City Dinosaurs Unearthed!

We were looking around last Sunday afternoon for something to do inside that was out of the rain. We got together with my friend Sonya and her boys and headed down to Union Station in Kansas City for their current exhibit "Dinosaurs Unearthed".

These things were awesome and they moved and growled and had placards with information on them. It was a great learning experience as well as fun!
Here are the kids in front of the t-rex outside.
We got our tickets, had some lunch, checked out some other parts of Union Station (coming to a later blog) and headed downstairs for the exhibit starting at 3:00 pm. Here is "the talk" from Dad a/k/a the hubs. "No running, no acting like fools, stay together, keep your hands to yourselves..." all that good stuff.
This is one of the five fully articulated skeletons in the display. Sooo cool!! The kids thought they were awesome!
Here they had a panel of all sizes of dinosaurs. Here are my two middles with the Stegosaurus.
And my littlest testing out his "dinosaur stomp and roar".
Here are my friend Sonya's boys, all smiles over the dinosaurs.
Here's Sonya's oldest next to a leg bone. Yikes! This thing made me feel tiny!
They had a stand set up where you could use paintbrushes (or your hands) and sift out the dinosaur bones underneath.
The littlest hard at work with his brush and the daughterling checking it out too...
She was not so much a fan of the 24 animatronic dinosaurs and spent most of the exhibit roaring back at them from the safety of Daddy's arms. :)
This triceratops looks like it's about to chomp the 7-year-old's head off. He doesn't seem to mind...strange, isn't it?
I will admit I'm not much of a dinosaur guru but dinosaurs with fur? Bizarre...
I had to practically bend over backwards to get the shot of this tall guy.
The exhibits were very kid-friendly and interactive and the boys all loved them.
This is the face we got...
...when this bad boy growled at him! PRICELESS!
Another one of the cool skeletons.
Union Station is a gorgeous old building and holds much history in Kansas City. I got some more cool pictures and info that I'll post in a later blog. I think I'm on picture overload as it is.

The kids all definitely gave "Dinosaurs Unearthed" at Union Station in Kansas City 12 thumbs up (we took six kids)!

Fun eats in KC!

Hubby had the day off work, so when he asked what we wanted to do for dinner tonight, I had an idea to get out and have some fun with the little ones (the boys are on a "father" weekend).

In Kansas City (for those who aren't from the area) there is a great place called Fritz's that if you have young kids, it's a must to check out and the burgers are great too. There are two locations, one in Kansas City KS and then the one we went to located in Kansas City, MO at Crown Center. Here's what the front looks like. Pardon my crappy camera but you will get the idea...

Here they are in their conductor hats waiting our turn to be seated.

This is the "view" from our booth. A painting of the Kansas City skyline behind the glass and an actual model train that goes around the loop of the restaurant and comes by every few minutes. You pick up the phone below the window to place your order.

Here's Daddy perusing the menu while Liam watches for the train to come by again.

Little Miss Fashionista sporting her conductor hat.

"Chugga chugga choo chooo!!!"

Here are the tracks that go all around the top of the restaurant...

When someone's order is ready, it gets put in the basket underneath the train there and comes around the tracks...cool huh?

Here comes ours!

It gets dropped on this little platform...

Which lowers itself down....

And you can grab it off the tray...

Here's my fattening burger, complete with hash browns on top...yummmm

Here's what it looks like when a conductor is pouting about being too busy watching for trains to eat his dinner...

Delaney is enjoying it though...

Daddy and Liam are debating about how many more bites a kid has to take before we can move on to the next part of our afternoon adventure...

I think I've posted the limit of pictures on this particular blog, so I'll continue the adventure tomorrow. Here's Fritz's website - their prices are reasonable too and definitely worth it for the novelty of the place. http://fritzskc.com/