Drove out of Calgary in the pouring rain headed for Drummheller where I planned to let loose my long-surpressed inner dinosaur nerd and Lorraine planned to humor me. We hit an incredibly long stretch of road work on 72. It was 40 kms of slick muddy clay and several times we were on the verge of sliding off the road or into an oncoming vehicle. I was pretty clenched.
The road drops into the badlands and all of a sudden you're in Drumheller where there must actually be a bylaw forcing all business owners to have some kind of dinosaur statue, no matter how lame or incorrect, in front of their establishments.
This is the largest lame dinosaur statue IN THE WORLD!
You can take stairs up into it (for a fee, of course) and look out of it's mouth. Maybe from up there you can see the Royal Tyrell Museum where they keep the real deal.
That's Lorraine framed in his mouth. Clever, huh?
This is Black Beauty, one of the most complete Tyranosaur fossils ever found.
I totally geeked out.
Also, the cafeteria is very good.
There are some trails around the museum so we had our first chance to get out into the landscape.
Vinnie pooed on a hoodoo.
We stayed in a goofy little B&B. Yes, it had a dinosaur statue in front. We got some take-out Vietnamese and watched Madmen.
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