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[oakenguy]

On the way back from the gig on Saturday I started passing signs that said 'DINOSAUR STATE PARK'. Can you say irresistable? My brain did. I was in the parking lot before I knew it, and paying my money to get inside the odd dome.

Inside the dome is an area about the size of a baseball infield, with a walkway around the edge. The middle is taken up with preserved dinosaur tracks, from the time when CT was a semi-tropical swamp. Hundreds of tracks. Big tracks. This caused some interesting neurons to fire in my brain.

Frontal Lobes: These prints are 200,000,000 years old. That's a long time.
Midbrain: Those are BIG tracks.
Hindbrain: Time, schmime, tracks = something here recently = something that might be nearby!

Frontal Lobes: Oh, look, a scale model of the creature that probably made the prints, a Dilophosaurus.
Midbrain: 'Eighteen-to-twenty foot predator with powerful legs indicating a very high rate of speed'.
Hindbrain: Ayiieeeee!!! *shuts down*

Ten minutes later
Frontal Lobes: Okay, let's think about the pattern of tracks here. Several hundred, going in all directions, and almost all are being created by the same species of carnivore. What would cause a pattern like this?
Midbrain: Easy--there's a den nearby. Probably a large one.
Hindbrain: AYIIEEEE!!! *shuts down again*

Comments

[dragonkisanth.livejournal.com]

that sounds cool... where is this place?

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

I went there a bunch of years ago. Very cool place. I don't know if they still have them, but they had some animatronic dinosaurs then that you could control. They didn't do much other then turn their heads and things like that, but it was quite fun.

[plastickitty.livejournal.com]

Dinosaurs in Boston? I had no idea. That's pretty awesome, though. I want one.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I haven't been there in ages. Grandma used to take me every few years.... I don't even *remember* it anymore :(

I like the way your neurons fire.

[wanderingrogue.livejournal.com]

Good thing for your hindbrain that those dinosaurs passed by millions of years ago.

Sounds like a pretty sweet place. I think even dinosaurs avoided Oklahoma.

[anadandy.livejournal.com]

OMG! I remember going there in a school field trip when I lived in CT. It was so cool - whe you mentione dthe dome I had a total flashback.