ouch! and oooh!

Is that a T-Rex biting your finger, Micah?!

 Yes, but he's actually going for the triceratops.

The biggest bones of all (a Fin Whale, second largest creature ever to live on this planet):

 

It spoke to us in Whale, so we tried speaking back to it, like Dori in Finding Nemo.

Where?  The LA County Museum of Natural History.  Micah and I had 8.5 hours to spare in LA before Amy and Levi arrived on their separate flight home from FL, so we hit up the new dinosaur hall.  We ended up spending about 4 hours there, enough time to hit all the major halls.  In the CA history hall, Micah was fascinated by dioramas of the Chumash indians, models of explorers' ships, dioramas of Mexican-American War battles, and real GUNS!  He stopped to take my picture:

Plenty of stuffed and mounted animals in the museum-- kind of reminded me of my last trip to Vegas:

 

What-the-who?  That's the showroom of the Bass Pro flagship store at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas.  I stopped there briefly a few weeks with some friends on the way to Zion NP to stock up before an overnight trip through the Virgin River Narrows in Zion Canyon.  Hooo boy, you have to do this trip at least once in your life.  There's a reason it's consistently listed as one of the top hikes in the country.

As a bonus, here's the urinal in the gas-station bathroom right before the NV state line:

 

Yes, that is a waterfall urinal.