As he closes his eyes he says, 'I sure had a fine adventure today.'
Dinosaur's Nest
The introduction to this next story is about an experience I had ten or so
years ago at the Portland Museum of Science and Industry. My
daughter was a volunteer at the museum at the time and, often, when I
visited she invited me along to help at the museum too, which, of course,
I did.
A popular exhibit at museums everywhere is one that displays models of
the large reptiles that roamed the Earth millions of years ago. During
one of my visits to my grandchildren in Portland, Oregon, the local
museum had such an exhibit. There were so many different reptiles in
the exhibit that, for my convenience in stories I hoped to write, I assigned
each a popular and easily pronounced-and remembered-name. The
names appear in this story: there was Albert the Apatosaurus, Pete the
Pentaceratops, Palmer the Parasaurolophus, Sally the Stegosaurus, and
Alice the Ankylosaurus. The exhibit also included a Petrushka the
Pterodactyl and a Tallyrand the Tyranosaurus.
The museum's Albert the Apatosaurus had a baby daughter, Alexandra,
and she slept in a doughnut-shaped nest after the museum closed for the
night.
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