Goodbye to the ROM

We weren't in Toronto long enough to really become emotionally attached to the city, but we did become attached to the Royal Ontario Museum.  Our first trip to the ROM was literally 2 days after we arrived in Toronto (documented previously).  We wanted to take the kids some place cool, but we were also looking for someplace with air conditioning because it was stifling hot in the city, and our rent house that we were too busy to fly up and see prior to moving of course had no AC (documented previously too).

The ROM turned out to be amazing, not just the dinosaur exhibit, but the entire museum.  We had so many great times there. The ROM was the perfect place for us, not only when it was 95 outside with no AC, but also when it was 5 outside with our heater cranked up.  Campbell loved the ROM so much I really can't put it into words, and I'm not sure I'll ever fully appreciate it.  He would literally run through the dinosaur exhibit over and over with a huge ear-to-ear smile on his face, stopping only to take a break on "his" grey leather couch.  He was probably the only 2 year old that knew exactly who succhomimus and prestosucchus were.  He was obsessed and still is obsessed with the free kids ROM dinosaur comic book that you could pick up at the beginning of the exhibit.  There were so many other things Campbell grew to love in the ROM: the turkey, the big gigantic Moose, the Algonquin park scene with the baby deer and the fox that he thought looked just like Maggie, playing in the kids zone, and Christmas Dino.  As for Mackadoodle, we literally watched her grow
inside the ROM.  The first time we took her, I think she slept the whole time in our Phil and Teds, but on our last trip, she was running close behind Cman pointing at the baby brown bear and jumping up onto the bench to look at the fish in the aquarium with Campbell.  We will miss the ROM and will hopefully be able to take them back one day when they are older.