Walking With Dinosaurs Live for Grandma?
Only if she is free of any heart condiditons. Just kidding only the T-Rex was really loud and a bit scary. I won tickets for my family to go see Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience. I have a three year old son who is OBSESSED with dinosaurs. He was in heaven. My five year old son and my husband were in awe as well. We had great seats and got to see all of the dinosaurs come out from behind the magic curtain. The dinosaurs were very realistic looking. The lighting effects were cool and there were parts of the show where trees sprouted up and flowers grew around the edges of the dinosaur stage. We had a blast. One set of dinosaurs, I believe they were the Utahraptors, were so realistic looking running around the stage. My kids got a kick out of the baby T-Rex. He played to the audience quite a bit. Mama T-Rex was another story, she was huge and so loud. I have never seen my child’s eyes get that big!!! There was lots of movement from the dinosaurs. The man playing the part of the paleontologist held my children’s attention, which is quite a feat in and of itself. My youngest kept calling him Nigel Marvin, who, if any of you have seen Prehistoric Park, like we have eight thousand times, then you know who he is. It was lots of fun. We did buy some of the trinkety things they had for sale… mainly those little fiber-optic strobe lights. That led to fun and adventure on our way home.
I told the boys that they couldn’t have their dinosaur lights in the car on the way home. Mainly because it was dark and DADDY was driving home. Yeah right, it was mostly because I am a mother and I don’t want to let my children have any fun. After several minutes arguing calmly discussing directions to get back home, we got headed on our way, I still couldn’t tell you which direction we were going in, that is why my husband was driving home. Enter a small, soft, cute voice from the back seat, “Moma, mommy mommy, I hafta go pee…” this is from our three year old who currently is in the middle of pooping daily in his undies potty training. I said quietly, “Can you just wait a few minutes?” A few minutes ticked by… “I still hafta pee…” Which began the, “He is three, just pull over to the side of the rod and he can go beside the car,” debate. I was for it, dad was against it. So, we pulled off the highway in the middle of nowhere and my husband took a right and began driving down the road. Towards what you may ask… I have no idea, but we drove for about 5 minutes in the dark night on a road in New Hampshire that lead to who knows where. Finally I said “Just pull over.” By this time the voice in the back seat was no longer soft or cute sounding. So, we first turned off the main road down a road lined with homes, then turned around in someone’s driveway, which probably woke the whole house due to the fact it was late at night and they might have a dog like ours who barks at everything, then we finally pulled off the side of the road. My husband got our son out of the car seat and took him around the back of the car to pee. Meanwhile unbenknowst to me, our five year old had gotten his hot little hands on one of the dinosaur lights. They were quite bright, flashing red and blue with one push of the button, green with another push, you get the idea. The three year old got back in his car seat safely. As my husband was getting into the car a set of headlights appeared in the distance behind us. All of a sudden, lights were flashing and my husband stepped on the gas hard enough to launch us forward quite suddenly. At this point I turned to him and screamed asked what are you doing??? while simultaneously watching our five year old wave his dinosaur light in the back seat. My husband thought the flashing lights were from a cop car. I have no idea why we were trying to outrun the cops on a residential street,in New Hampshire, at 9:30 at night. Needless to say, the lights went into my purse. No more fun and games that night.
Which leads me to this, my parents, the grandparents of my children, sometimes are at a loss as to what to get for two little boys who has a mother who buys them stuff nonstop. I thought that this would be a great show to take the kids to. Gram and Gramp get some quality time with the kiddos and my hubby and I could go out to dinner at a restaurant that serves food on real pates and uses silverware. For other great ideas of what grandparents can do for gift giving check out this website, http://www.grandkidsgiftguide.com mentioned at http://blog.parentbloggers.com. It has lots of great ideas, which can take a lot of stress off the grandparents. Plus, my mother-in-law will no longer have to watch for those checks to clear that she sends that I never seem to get to the bank. I am afraid it would just be a bad version of that Seinfeld episode, where he cashes all his grandmothers checks at once. Argh!
