The Dinosaur Boy Goes To School

[Dad's Note: This is Bridger's 100th post! Of course the true landmark will be his 164th post, then his 8025th. This was also Bridger's first day of school. I'm not sure I like this growing up thing.]

This one is for my new friend Silas.

Today I went to kindergarten. I played with McCall. I made one new friend, but I don't remember his name. I forgot to video his name in my mind. Oh, now I remember- his name is Silas. He had a allosaurus shirt and the allosaurus is the state dinosaur. They found the first allosaurus in a little cave. They found the bones in the wall. The paleontologists didn't take those bones out of the wall. They left them there so that people could see them.

I have to tell about something that Katie found in her backyard. She called me from Tescas. It was a dinosaur fossil that was 80 feet long. Katie says it has large tooths the size of a pencil. It was bones. She is going to give it to me to keep.

[It was actually Katie's college school teacher's brother that found the fossil in his back yard, but it is a true story. But as I understand it, Katie's plans to "give it" to Bridger will be news to her:). Maybe Katie can tell us what kind of dino it was.

The allosaurus dig Bridger refers to is the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry near Price, Utah. The cave he mentions is an exhibit at Dinosaur Park. The allosaurus was designated Utah's State Fossil in 1988.]