Dinosaurland Family Trip

We just got back last weekend from our very first family vacation to the wonderful, amazing, exotic....Vernal, oh wait it's none of those. Whoops! Oh well we still had fun as a family even though the main portion of Dinosaur National Park was closed due to the fact that the building housing the query (that big wall with all the dinosaurs bones) is structurally unsound and won't be open till 2011. I read nowhere of this closure that happened two years ago! So maybe we should have just taken a trip to Thanksgiving Point to see the dinosaur museum there. The trip still had it's good parts. We loved the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum, wow is that title long enough? There were hands on exhibits for the kids to experience and a lot of cool info for Baron and I. Now I sympathize with my parents when we would go to museums on our family vacations. My parents would want to read all the information at every exhibit and it would drive us nutts! Well here I am, a parent, and wanting to read about what we drove 175 miles to see! Did the kids let us? Nope, one tantrum after another. Oh well, I guess that is part of family vacations, at least until they are old enough to threaten, bribe, ground, berate, etc. You know all the tried an trues of parenthood (I hope you are feeling the sarcastic vibe, don't call social services on me.) We had a great time in the outdoor pool with the kids. Brie was showing off her skills learned during summer swim lessons this year. We're talkin mad bubble blowing skills! Colby loved riding the giant inflatable lobster we bought for the trip. So in all I feel like it was wonderful time spent with my family and totally worth the trip.