Dinosaur Provincial Park

This was the first time we have ever had 2 week holidays as a family together. We were pretty excited! We were all so ready for some family time and more summer adventures.  For our first week off, we went to Dinosaur Provincial Park for some camping. Dinosaur Provincial Park is located in the middle of no where (48 kms NE of Brooks) or that's what it felt like. The park is well known for being one of the richest dinosaurs fossil locations in the world. Forty dinosaur species have been discovered at the park and more than 500 specimens have been removed and exhibited in museums around the globe.

The park is also located in the badlands. Years ago Native Americans and other travellers found it was a horrible place to travel through because of the sandy soil that would constantly wash away. The Native Americas also believed that anything with a shadow has a spirit; so they believed that the hoodoos were rock giants that would sleep during the day and when night arrived they would search for travellers to devour.  

We choose this camping spot as this is somewhere Josh use to camp when he was little and was excited to relive his childhood with his own kids... I know I was more then ready to slow life down a bit and enjoy our family time. Summer has been so busy with the day home... We had so much fun camping! Lincoln said it was like were in the dinosaur times.


Our week at Dinosaur park was HOT!!! Each day it got to the high 30's. Well actually hotter. The weather forcast was for Patricia, which is a small town near Dinosaur park. But as soon as you when down into the valley where we stayed the temps went up to 40-45'c. We spent our mornings exploring the badlands...


... And in the afternoon we tried to stay cool in the stream and river.


The kids had so much fun in the little stream by our camp site.

One day we made our way to Drumheller to go visit Royal Tyrrell Museum.
It was so much fun! Learning about dinosaurs and seeing all the dinosaur fossils.

 The park had different classes and tours they offer. Lincoln took part in a 'dinosaur cast from the past'. Where he learned about real fossil and casts. He also got to make a few casts. He loved it and it was helpful for when we went to the Tyrrell museum because he could tell the difference. We also took some bus tours that took us out to some fossil beds, which was pretty neat.

We had a such a fun week exploring!