annie had it right with the tyrannosaurus tattoo

I went to Denver yesterday to pick Eric up and watched while he and his friend Chris made concrete and poured it in post-holes they had previously dug. They were at Chris' parents' house. It was a very manly time, with many jokes about sticking things in holes. I only held the wheelbarrow.

Then we went to the natural history museum. They have an exhibit of stuffed mammals. The walrus is enormous but then so is the sea lion. The sea lion is quite tough but the walrus has tusks. The polar bears were eating little seals, so I guess they would beat all comers in a fight.

We looked at dinosaurs, and this museum has the same fossil of the giant fish with a little fish inside it! And whale skeletons! There were skeletons of two fighting meat-eating dinosaurs, and one had another dinosaur's tail in its mouth. But it was a skeleton of a tail. The skeleton turtle had a really tiny neck sticking out of its shell. They were all amazing. And, you could watch the scientists working in the fossil lab, making casts of real bones and then cleaning them up.

Also we saw the gems and minerals exhibit. There are many kinds that grow as little tiny hairs, or spiky cubes. And different versions of the same mineral that are different colors. I found it fascinating but it's hard to convey how stones in boxes could be cool.

And finally we went to the planetarium and saw a movie about black holes. It was extremely trippy because we went into and out of the black hole at the center of the milky way, and then through a hypothetical wormhole. There were flames and groovy colors.

Anyway the dinosaurs were my favorite, and now I want a dinosaur tattoo too.

PS Briefly we had an experiment wherein we spoke in sentences of only two words. It was going well until I had to find parking. We were succinct.