When you're staying at someone elses house, especially when it is a house without any children, you realize how much havoc can be wreaked by four boys. It's amazing how little I care about the wanton destruction of my own home. Anyway, in order to prevent the roof falling in, I have to find daily activities outside my brother and sister-in-law's house. Today, while Andy was invited to check out a Steinway grand (and what 6-year-old wouldn't want to do that?) I needed an activity for the three younger boys. Ian is completely taken with dinosaurs right now, so I googled dinosaur exhibits here in Virginia. The top result was Dinosaur Land near Winchester, VA. I've driven past Dinosaur Land many times, as I went to grad school out in Winchester, and it always struck me as a tacky, redneck tourist site, but I didn't have Ian back then. So, the three younger ones and I paid a visit. No, it's not Universal Studios, but I think it may have been a whole lot better. It's really a very nice Shenandoah Valley forest, with models of dinosaurs scattered throughout. No rides, noise, or lines. Just dinosaurs, dinosaurs and nothing but dinosaurs. It was Ian's dream come true.
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