December 28: Dinosaur World #KidsDeserveIt

           Do you ever have those days where you’ve accomplished all that you can by noon? Today was one of those days where I did everything I needed to and I was just chomping at the bit to do something daring. Then I received a text message that transformed my day into another world!

            Half an hour later my students’ family and I were on our way in our Humvee. The trip lasted 30 minutes before our Humvee quickly started sinking in the quick sand we had driven through. We had to no choice to break a window and begin our journey on foot. The Humvee vanished as we were greeted by a wall of trees as tall as the sky. We didn’t know where we were so we kept walking. The forest playground was perfect and shady for 2 (young) paleontologists and 2 (adult) archeologists today.

Suddenly the flock of Pterosaurs went in the opposite direction. Something wasn’t right. Before we knew it a Tyrannosaurus Rex as was coming right for us. We ran as fast as we found in the opposite direction, but knew we were no match for the humongous creature with tiny arms. We braced for our final moment when out of no where a team of Triceratops bulldozed the T-Rex to the ground giving us our perfect opportunity to escape in the shadows. Our archeologists stood in amazement at the sight they just witnessed.  They used to words “cool” and “gruesome” to describe the carnivore’s actions.

            As we walked to a nearby river to replenish our hydration a man named Phil appeared swinging in the trees. He seemed knowledgeable because of his age and white hair so we took him as our own kind. He shared numerous facts of the creatures that lay hidden in the forest we were deep inside of. As our knowledge grew so did our hunger, so he gave us eggs from shaped just like camofloudge soccer balls. They were anything but nutritious, rather rubbery in fact. We thanked the caveman and continued on with our journey.

            We made our way to the Brachiosaurus hoping they’d be our exit ticket out of the forest. Instead, we were back to where we started. While the paleontologists played on a fossilized Stegosaurus, the other archeologist noticed a sign that said “Exit”. Could it be true? We called the boys and headed out. We followed muddy, twisting path before us. We were home free…until a trinity of vicious Velociraptors surrounded us. Not to fear Caveman Phil appeared and sounded his horn. Intimidated, the raptors ran away instantly. Then we walked out of... Dinosaur World.

 -Mr. P