7/09/2009

Royal Tyrrell Museum

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This morning, we drove for a long time to a dinosaur museum in Drumheller called Royal Tyrrell Museum. Because of the long route, we arrived at 11:30, and bought the tickets for 30 dollars, and then signed up for a program called Secrets of the Lost Quarry for 14 dollars. We wandered around the museum, which was mostly about dinosaurs, but there was a Darwin temporary exhibit that was about Charles Robert Darwin’s journey on the Beagle. There were many detailed explanations about the dinosaurs’ lives, habitats, et cetera, and there were many difficult words. The museum also provided information about the Earth’s distant past. Then, we attended the program we signed up, and then realized our mistake; this program is for kids. It’s quite boring, and I read the introduction again: In the early 20th century, fossil hunters didn’t always document their excavation sites and key information was lost. Learn how we locate missing quarries in this interactive program. I think the others knew that this was a kids’ program because of the word interactive. The program taught a little about the rocks and even less about quarries. We hiked a little in the hills outside of the museum, and then went into the building again. I did not learn much, but somehow it consumed much of my energy.
We went to Horseshoe Canyon after leaving the museum. We saw a helicopter. Then we drove to Strathmore to our hotel called Best Western Strathmore Inn.

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