A Travel Back in Time

About 2 months, Jackie started an annex program for Agriculture in which monthly, she would take kids on paseos (adventure outings) to various museums, parks, etc to give the kids opportunities to experience the agricultural/science side of Ecuador a little more. They have been very successful and this past month we took a very excited group of 15 kids to an interactive Dinosaur museum in Quito, and lets just say, it was so horribly awesome. This interactive "museum", and I use that in the lightest sense possible, was more of a gloried life-size Jurassic Park puppet show (complete with the Jurassic Park soundtrack playing in the background).

The 25 minute tour included a guide that walked us through different scenes of dinosaurs and mega-beasts with varying moving parts and features. I didn't take the whole "interactive" part seriously. When we first walked in, we were standing around listening to a recording about dinosaurs and I was busy watching over the kids and not really paying attention, when all of a sudden a foam boulder came flying at me that a puppet dino flung from over a wall. I screamed louder than any 5 year old there. Needless to say we quickly learned that these larger than life dinos moved and sprayed water, scaring the **** out of many of the kids. As we moved from set to set, kids were hiding behind all of the profes and one girl, Leslie, refused to take her fingers out of her ears the entire time (see pic below).

Overall the outing was great. I personally thought it was so horribly awesome and wouldn't trade that day for anything haha. But after the tour, they had 2 dinosaur rides that the kids throughly enjoyed for the better part of an hour. Here a few snippets of our awesome kids and the awesome museum...

This dino sprayed water at us...didn't see that one coming!

Cowering from a giant moving relative of 

Sharp Tooth (The Land Before Time anyone?)

Our favorite, and one and only, set of twins, Ronny and

 Samantha, fearlessly riding the dinos

Samantha being eaten by her dino!

Exhausted on the bus back home! 

(One's faking, can you tell?!)

Only 3 months and 1 day left of Manna....pretty crazy/scary! It's going to be so hard to leave these kids!

Until next post,

Krysta