Jurassic Quest Adventure

In February we celebrated Everett's 4th Birthday. I am still trying to figure out how my sweet little baby boy has grown into this seemingly huge sweet toddler boy! I was bound and determined to not do a big birthday party for Everett this year like in years past however this didn't really come to be.

Everett continues to love everything dinosaur and animals. His absolute favorite things to get are dinosaur toys and small life like animals to create imaginative scenes of play with. Over the past holidays and birthdays he has collected just about every dinosaur and animal we could hope to find and I was searching for something more meaningful to gift him with for his 4th birthday. We heard about "Jurassic Quest" coming to a town about an hour away from us where they have life-size life-like robotic dinosaurs of all kinds in exhibits to see. Drew and I knew that Everett would absolutely love seeing the dinosaurs he loves so much in a massive scale and decided to take him and Haven for Everett's birthday gift this year. So one Saturday morning we loaded up and made the short trek over to Clovis, NM to embark on the Jurassic Experience of Everett's dreams.

Immediately upon pulling into the jam packed parking lot we saw several giant dinosaurs to which Everett began excitedly yelling out their technical names which he has learned all of.  "Mom look its a brontosaurus and a pachesefalosaurus and Ohhhhhh a T-Rex!!!" Drew and I knew instantly this little drive was completely worth it and hopefully he would always remember. Everett could hardly contain his excitement when we entered the convention center where there were dozens of scenes set up with robotic dinosaurs all roaring, grunting, and moving their heads.

We spent the next few hours walking around with Everett in complete awe as he saw the creatures he's watched on TV come to life in front of his eyes. I was worried that seeing these life size animals would scare him a little but was not worried at all about how Haven would react to seeing this huge creatures as she is absolutely fearless at this age. There was an area set up in the arena with a "walking dinosaur" that was a person in an elaborate velasa raptor costume that moved in incredible life-like movements and this was the only time that Everett began to get nervous. As I was holding him to get a better look and the walking dinosaur moved throughout the crowd playfully grabbing men's hats off their heads Everett began pulling me by the shirt to move back out of the line of interaction.








The whole experience was over-priced but worth it to see the excitement and amazement on Everett's face as he came face to face with the creatures he loves so much. We topped off the event with Everett riding an ankylosaurus and both kids leaving with a dinosaur memento to remember the day.