Kansas Adventures Part 3: First Happy Meal and the traumatic museum! :)

Dustin went golfing one day with his dad and Dean, so Patty and I decided to head to Hays to go to the Sternberg museum and do a little shopping.  Before we headed to the museum, Patty took us to eat at McDonalds.  She decided to give Jack his first experience with a Happy Meal.  Patty and I were quite shocked as this is how the meal progressed:

Chomp, chomp, chomp......(The cheeseburger was almost gone by the time Patty and I started eating!  No more of this break up Jack's food for him business!)

"Hey Grandma, Can I have a bite of your Big Mac?"

"More fries, please!"
"Mmmmm.....these apple dippers are good!"

The result:  This is the full, content face of a little boy who just ate almost an entire cheeseburger, some fries, some apple dippers, 3 chicken nuggets, a couple bites of a Big Mac, and some milk.  What a kid, what a meal, what an entertaining experience for Patty and me! 

Then we were off to the museum.  It was a really neat museum with lots of stuffed animals, fossils, a fun science education center with little animals like snakes, frogs, and lizards to look at, and the most amazing dinosaur area!  It has lifesize dinos in their natural habitat, and lots of dino noises.  It also has this....

Very cool looking, but then it starts moving and roaring at you.....and the result is a little boy who screams, cries, and backs himself against some rocks in pure horror and a mom who jumps, just about pees her pants, and gets shocked close to tears!  

Jack screaming and crying.....

Backing away in horror into the rock wall....

Still screaming in terror....In fact, when I wanted to keep going back to check out the cool moving, roaring dinosaur, Jack cried even harder.  I think he thought the T-Rex was going to eat his mommy!  (I think Grandma got a kick out of watching Jack and I get scared!  She laughed pretty hard!)

Grandma and Jack checking things out in the dinosaur area....

And later, we had a happy boy to be away from the scary dino....(However, you could still hear the sounds of the dinosaurs around the museum, and Jack looked a little nervous each time he heard them!)

Grandma, Jack, and Heather

Jack getting ready to go on an African Safari!

Another one of the cool dinosaurs!

Grandma petting the dinosaur!  

Jack not sure of the of the stuffed animals.  (Maybe he thought they were going to move or growl at him!)

Grandma teaching Jack about the Fish Within a Fish!

 Jack and me by a dinosaur that actually moved and looked like it was eating a plant!  And notice the cool terodactyls behind us too!

Jack with Grandma by the huge Wooly Mammoth!  He also enjoyed a stuffed tiger in this entry way and kept roaring at it!

Thanks Grandma for a good meal at McDonalds, a neat trip to the museum, and a productive day of shopping! :)