Dino-might Be Fun!

When the idea of taking in “Walking with Dinosaurs” first came up, I admit, I thought…..that might be fun.  I just am not THAT into dinosaurs, so it wasn’t like I had the date sprawled all over the calendar for the big events arrival in our fair city.    Turns out, I didn’t know anything about Dinosaurs.  No wonder I didn’t like them.

Opening night of the exhibit in at Wichita’s Intrust Arena, turned out to be fun, and sorry to spoil it for you, EDUCATIONAL.  I learned a lot, and I am a middle age former newscaster who was supposed to know everything.

I was actually a little worried that my 9 and 13-year old GIRLS wouldn’t really be interested.  Dinosaurs have a sort of “macho” feel to them.  So it was especially fun to watch their faces when the creatures crawled onto the arena floor.  In fact the first thing out of my little ones mouth was, “Mom, are there people in there??”  I hate to tell her that I really don’t know.  (Okay, I’m sure  the raptors were human puppets because their legs were showing, but I really don’t know if T-Rex was remote controlled or  some dudes were in there hamming it up for us. We fought over it on the way home, so as not to spoil it for anyone,  I’ll leave that up to you to google.)  But seriously look at these Dinosaurs….it really was as close as we’ll probably ever come to knowing what it might have been like millions of years ago.

I sat there enjoyed myself and haven’t heard one person who went say a bad thing about those darn dinosaurs so I have to give this little gig a big thumbs up.  The sad part is, NOT that the dinosaurs are extinct….but that this kind of production couldn’t be used to teach our kids the HISTORY that I learned last night.  It made all those “era’s” we learned about in school make so much SENSE.  Sadder yet, both the husband and I admitted we had forgotten how the Dinosaurs died.  (6 mile wide comet that carved out the Gulf of Mexico) I hope if that part is fiction no one tells me, cause it was a great way for the story to end.

And just to name drop, we saw Bruce Haertl, Jemelle Holopirek, Brett Harris and their families.  I felt like part of the “Old Gang” again.  Okay, I really didn’t but it was great to see them.

Oh, and if you want to go there are shows through Sunday.