So, in our traditional Saturday (a.k.a. Family Day) tradition, we decided to try a great place for lunch. Or so we thought. David and I decided to finally take Nathan and Will to experience T-Rex, which is based on basically the same theme as Rainforest Cafe, only with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animale.

Anyway, we’d talked it up all morning and Nathan of course was skeptical even uttering, “I – will – cry” when I was trying to encourage him to at least check it out when we got there. I should’ve taken his words as a warning though.

We got like 50 feet from the place and when he saw those dinosaur bones on the outside of the building, he all but made a beeline for the parking garage. It took some coaxing but we finally made it inside and he began to cry and cover his ears from all of the dinosaur roars and rainstorms, etc. that were going on.

Here’s what greets you the second you enter in the door:

Not to mention the fiftybazillion people that were there at the noon hour getting on the fifty minute waiting list. Yes, that is 5-0 (fifty, not fifteen)!

We headed right over to the shopping area with our pager in hand and checked out the digging area which Nate seemed to dig (he, he, he…no pun intended!)

Then we made our way over to the screens located throughout and played a few of the interactive games, which he also seemed to enjoy.

While he was there with David, I took Will over to the gemstone area to take a peep. I ran into my own birthstone (Amethyst) quite a few times and thought they were really pretty!

Too bad I don’t really dig the color purple – unless it’s the movie we’re talking about. But, it was still pretty to look at.

We made our way up the stairs to the woolly mammoth area and a gracious diner offered to take our pic.

Then we went back downstairs to see if we’d moved up on the waitlist any and that’s where I noticed these cuties!

Finally we get seated and as our “guide” is taking us to our seats, and I see the Triceratops up ahead, I am thinking oh crap Nathan’s really going to wail! Luckily for us though there was a waterfall just to the left of our table. But the bad news is that the other side of our table bumped up against these:

Well, we sat through lunch – whatever – it could’ve gone better; could’ve gone worse. Either way we all walked out alive and headed across the walkway to Cold Stone right afterwards so all was good.