Bookworm Broadcast » Museum http://www.bookwormbroadcast.com Turning the world into bookworms - one child at a time! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:41:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= A T-Rex Named Sue http://www.bookwormbroadcast.com/2007/10/18/a-t-rex-named-sue/ http://www.bookwormbroadcast.com/2007/10/18/a-t-rex-named-sue/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:17:13 +0000 Mrs.Lisa http://bookwormbroadcast.com/2007/10/18/a-t-rex-named-sue/ [...]]]> That’s who I’m going to meet tomorrow – well, me and a couple busloads full of fifth graders. I’m so excited. I’m scared already, just from looking at the pictures. I mean, really – do you think these three boys ever have nightmares?
A T-Rex Named Sue
See, because, what I am seeing tomorrow is a cast replica – but, those sweet boys are looking at the real, for real, actual ….head of a T-Rex!

Maybe it didn’t help that I watched Godzilla with my son yesterday! ;) The images of Godzilla are helping Sue ‘come alive’ for me, you know? I mean, good gosh! Sue’s hips are 12 feet high! Just her hips!

I have been doing some reading up on her and I am getting more excited with every page that I read. The Field Museum, in Chicago, Illinois, with the help of many sponsors – purchased Sue for $8.4 million!

Her debut was in May 2000, and she even had a special piece of music written just for her big debut, by The Chicago Chamber Musicians. The piece is called, “Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto”. I just love the sound of that! I mean, the name, that is. I haven’t actually heard the piece. That would be really cool if I could find it on YouTube and then I could post it here for all of us to enjoy together!

Ok, I’m sure I’ll have lots of good stuff to report after ‘meeting’ her – so for now…
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