ROAR!!! Hi efurrybody, Arty here today to show you one of the fun side trips we took on our vacation.
These are the famous Cabazon Dinosaurs!! Being a huge Dinosaur fan, I was excited to see them up close!
If you have ever watched the moves, PeeWee's Great Adventure or The Wizard, you may have noticed them.
Here's Dinny, she was built in 1964. Mama actually lived in California then but doesn't remember ever seeing Dinny(she was an itty bitty puppy). This does. however, prove she really IS older than a dinosaur!
BOL!!
This is Mr. Rex, and he was built in 1981. Both dinosaurs were built by a Knott's Berry Farm sculpter, Claude K. Bell to help attract customers to his restaurant, The Wheel Inn. Right
now, they are dressed up in their Flintstone's Halloween outfits. Mr.
Rex is Fred Flinstone and Dinny is dressed up as Dino! 
Yabba Dabba Doo!
Look Mama, I am as big as Mr. Rex and could chew up that lady in two bites!!!
What do mean, that wouldn't be appropriate? Sheesh Mama, I was just pretending!!
Phhhttthhhwaaaapppp!!
There is a "Dinosaur Walk" behind the big dinosaurs, with even more dinosaur sculptures!
Rosy and I even posed with Mr. Rex!
Believe it or not, he was a pretty friendly guy!
Dinny
and Mr. Rex. along with the Dinosaur Walk, are located in I-10, about 300 miles
east of Los Angeles, near Palm Springs. They were an hour away
from Twentynine Palms RV Resort, where we were staying in CeCe.
If
you are ever in the area and need a rest stop, this is a fun place to
stretch your paws!
wow that was brave to come so close to mr. rex... that is very rex-iting :O)
ReplyDeleteThey look quite scary to me, but Mom says they look really fun. Some day maybe we will travel out west. Right now life keeps taking us east and south.
ReplyDeleteWow - they are just incredible and HUGE and we're so happy that they're friendly!
ReplyDeleteCan't believe you guys were brave enough to sit in the jaws of Mr Rex. I mean, he might have looked friendly, but with teeth that big....
ReplyDeleteYou do realize you are in a dinosaur's mouth, right?
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteOMD will you look at those!!! All credit to the creators, for this makes for great fun for travellers - and bloggers &*> Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
I want to go there!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! What a fun place to visit. I the Mad Snapper would snap myself completely silly if I could see all that. I am glad that none of you were afraid of all the dinosaurs and tia Soros and Rexes
ReplyDeleteThat sure looks like a fun place to visit and you make the cutest dinosaur we've ever seen, Arty.
ReplyDeleteClapping and cheering at this wonderful and most colorful and fun post. OMDs. Arty I do think you should have a statue there too BECAUSE you are the best of the best. I love that you and Rosy gave them a dental check up.
ReplyDeleteI'm older than dirt and dinosaurs.
Aunty HiC
Wow! You're sure having a great adventure! I bet our grandkids would love to go see the dinosaurs with you!
ReplyDeleteTo stretch one's paws and waggle a tail or two...looks like a great stopover. Loved your photos, guys! 🦕
ReplyDeleteWOW.............
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit there if only I wasn't in a different country
What a fun place and you're all in the mouth of that huge beast. Adorable.
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Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. Scritches to the pups and my best to the peeps. ♥
It sure looks like you had a big old dino time!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is one very cool place. We love how you actually got to visit those dinosaurs AND get your photos taken with them. Very fun.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Lightning, Misty, and Timber
what an awesome and fun place. One of those dinosaurs looks like Dino.
ReplyDeleteRAWR!
ReplyDeleteDat are soo cool our human brudder would love it. We has a big Dino near us dat are really old too hims name is Rex and he used to be the mascot fur da Gooney Golf back in da day. Now he lives near da beach in Jacksonville which is da norm when ya retire here in FL BOL. I will say he are not as cute as your dinosaurs though ;)
ReplyDeletexoxo,
Matt & Matilda