Walking With Dinosaurs

With Olivia and my nephew, Gavin's, birthday a week apart, Karen had a fabulous idea to take the kids to see Walking With the Dinosaurs at the Gwinnett Arena Friday night.  I kept this event secret until Thursday night.  Of course, I talked about the HUGE surprise all week and the kids were beside themselves in anticipation of what HUGE meant.  I finally gave them a taste of what we would see with a couple of videos online.  Now, it was HUGE.....

After 65 million years they’re back!

After years of planning, the award-winning BBC TV series, Walking with Dinosaurs comes to life in a stunning theatrical event.
Internationally renowned designers have worked with scientists to create 15 life-size dinosaurs, including the terror of the ancient terrain, Tyrannosaurus-rex! Be amazed and thrilled as the greatest creatures ever to walk the earth return before your eyes.
It’s a dazzling 10 million pound arena spectacle of unprecedented size and quality set to captivate young and old alike. Marvel at the story of their 200 million year domination of life on earth. Watch them walk. Hear the roar. Be there as they fight for survival and supremacy. From the ripple of their skin to the glint in their eye, you will know the dinosaurs really have returned!

Take a look at the video section of the website.  It gives you a glimpse of what we encountered.  I am in utter amazement of the entire production.  If you can imagine, the narrator came to the top of one of the dinosaurs ankles!  He lead us through the different eras when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.  The look and awe on the kids faces were, as you can guess, priceless.  Our seats were second from the stage.  I'm not sure how I captured such great seats, but thank you WSB Family to Family discount - you saved me tons and tons of money and gave us spectacular seats.  As my brother-in-law, Mike, said, "hey, our seats are better than the Falcons head coach, Mike Smith".  He was sitting behing us....  We saw quite a few adults (without kids) at the show as well, so it wasn't just for kids.  It was that good. 

Dave was returning from L.A., so he missed it.  When he asked me casually 'how was the show", he didn't know what he was in store for... 15 minutes later, I came up for air!  To sum it up - I LOVED IT!  Happy 6th Birthday, Olivia (Sept. 18) and Happy 5th Birthday, Gavin (Sept. 27).