Visiting Dinosaur Ridge

This past weekend I got out for a early morning ride on Saturday. How early? Lets just say I met my buddy Andy at 5am so we could get 5 hours on the bikes before family duties took over. Turns out it was lucky for us since we got a rare Colorado treat...to ride above the clouds.



I wrote up a post about : Riding in Heaven on my own blog so when you get a chance, go check it out.

While riding up on Dakota Ridge I realized I hadn't taken the girls to see the Dinosaur Exhibit at the base of the ridge yet. So when I got home Tabetha was on her way to Boulder with a friend and I quickly scooped up the girls to go see the Dinosaurs.





I'm kinda double dipping here since I also wrote about the Dinosaurs on my own blog but I figure you'd like a little History lesson.

If you were wondering what Dakota Ridge has to do with Dinosaurs...It goes by another name as well...That of Dinosaur Ridge.



Fossilized footprints of the Iguanodon, ancient crocodiles, and other dinosaurs have been found on the ridge along with bones of the Stegosaurus, and proof of an inland sea that is said to cover 1/3 of Colorado with sharks teeth, fossilized sea animals and plant life.



Also, bones of a Triceratops were found in downtown Denver and fossilized footprints of a Triceratops and a T Rex were found in Golden.



We took a little tour bus ride of the ridge where Alya got to walk in the footprints of Dinosaurs and Aya and Sophie both got to climb rocks that were inbedded with petrified Dinosaur bones believed to be a Stegosaurus. The bones and rocked fused so well that any attempts to remove the bones were damaging them so it was decided best to just leave them be.



Back at the exhibit there was an outdoor dig area where Sophie got to excavate some bones.