Old Bones & Fossils...

... no I'm not referring to my parents visiting! In actual fact we went on a trip to Drumheller - dinosaur capital of Canada. Drumheller is the site of the Royal Tyrrell Museum (right) where you can learn all the things you ever wanted to know about dinosaurs, paleontology [all I could think of was Ross from 'Friends'] and the formation of the earth, glaciers, various ages and so forth. In fact the museum was so huge it took us 3-4 hours to get round it.
Drumheller itself is basically full of hotels where people stay when coming to the museum. The tourist centre also boasts the 'World's Largest Dinosaur' (left) which we climbed up and into its jaws.
The surrounding area is known as the 'Badlands', so named because they were bad or difficult lands for explorers to cross. They were like nothing I've ever seen before. The different rock formations are why the bones and fossils are preserved well in the area. We drove along the dinosaur trail to Little Church - seating 6 at a time - and then past Horsethief Canyon (me & Dad are stood in front of it on the right).
We were really lucky as the weather changed for the better and it was hot and sunny!