In more other news, we've got a mouse. Not one of the authorized mice who're expected to be here and cared for and all that. But some wild mouse that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger heard, and then saw, running across the floor apparently unaware that they're being incredibly obvious. We've had mice get into the house before and we know the rough procedure. bunnyhugger got out some of the live traps and went through the extremely fiddly process of getting them ready.
The one possible complication: what if this is a mother mouse? It's easy enough to relocate one to the garage, but getting the mouse pups with her would be a problem. But, no way to know until we catch them and check their underside. Also no way to know that it's just one mouse, and not several that bunnyhugger has seen one time each.
In the Dutch Wonderland pictures we approached Exploration Island, but have we explored it yet? No? Well, let's see if we don't fix that today.
Here's what you'll find on Exploration Island: dinosaurs!
Oh, yeah, I should specify, animatronic dinosaurs so just in case here's the fire extinguisher!
Exploration Island, as it is, isn't more than a dozen or so years old so these trees have to predate that. I don't know what the island was used for before this.
As ever, seeing dinosaur stuff these days mostly involves me learning there's all kinds of new names of dinosaurs I never heard of before with names I'm not going to remember.
Ankylosaur I know because a sound clip of an automated voice reading ``ankylosaur'' is used whenever the Greatest Generation podcast hosts realize they don't know how to say a word.
Now these guys I know. Animatronic Calvins!
Aw yeah, Stegosaurus, you can't have dinosaurs without these guys.
This one was neat because you maybe see the silvery panel on the right there? There's a bunch of buttons you can press that activate the connected gear, and so you actually make the dinosaur do things. You can get surprisingly lifelike movement with just a little practice!
I don't know the Shunosaurus but it looks like it's been ordered to stay in its little box there.
I know nothing of the Psittacosaurus but you can see the Turnpike ride behind them, and vice-versa.
Here you see a little better the Turnpike auto, and also a cow that's not animatronic but just a Turnpike prop.
The sign means both physically and emotionally touching the dinosaurs. Keep it professional.
Trivia: Gus Grissom and John Young's Gemini 3 was the last American crew not to wear the stars-and-stripes on their flight suits. Source: Gemini Flies! Unmanned Flights and the First Manned Mission, David J Shayler.
Currently Reading: Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek, Glen E Swanson.
