#408 Dinosaurs

I absolutely love dinosaurs, they are the most amazing creatures to ever have walked this earth, in my opinion of course. I’ve loved them since I was a kid, I would watch a movie series called The Land Before Time over and over, like little kids do. In second grade my school went for an overnight trip to Drumheller’s Royal Terrell Museum. When I was seven I was extremely excited to go to the museum of dinosaurs, not knowing they were skeletons. I was absolutely terrified of skeletons. We got there and I had the shock of my life. I was dying inside, I was so scared of everything. After a few hours I got use to the fact I was surrounded by bones and had some fun, but when it came time to go to bed they turned off all the lights and made us sleep under the humongous tyrannosaurs-rex and triceratops skeletons. I cried till I fell asleep. It was a horrifying memory, hilarious now, but still scariest thing ever for a seven year old to experience. Then in fifth grade we went again, back to, in my eyes at the time, the scariest place on earth. I went on the trip, because all my friends were, so I thought to myself “you’ll have fun this time”, boy was I wrong. It was even worst this time around, I was scared the whole time, hiding behind my friends and crying all night long. I was so scared of skeletons, because they relate with death, and death scared me a lot when I was younger, because it was, well, death. Now that I’m grown up I don’t have the fear of skeletons anymore, because I guess I just grew out of it, and now the Royal Terrell Museum is one of my favourite places to go.