Kid overload

So at 6am this morning I was buying dinosaurs, plastic ones you understand. Quite clearly people don’t normally buy such things at such early hours as the cashier appeared most amused at my puchase selection. It was a cool set though - came complete with plastic trees, bushes, rocks, and this fabulous background to pin up behind them (that was so far from realistic it was even better than you could imagine).

It was Earth Science Day on campus today where the local schools come and do all sorts of activities. I run the IMPACT CRATERS activity with a fellow graduate student. We reinact the K-T boundary with some flour, a kitty litter tray, a paintball gun, and of course the plastic dinosaurs (they add a certain finesse). Because we tend to project flour everywhere we are an outdoor activity and it was somewhat colder than most of us expected (I am currently enjoying a hot chocolate to warm up), so we had some grumpy kids but most bore it well.

I might go buy some dinosaurs now actually - a chicken (the living relations of dinosaurs, those people who say they went completely extinct are liars).