"Come on!" Gray yelled to Zach and Zara.
The two were heading to the Innovation Center to meet Claire.
"Relax." Zach said.
"Come on." Gray ushered.
"Calm down." Zach said.
Gray opened the doors of the Innovation Center and the two brothers walked in.
A voice on the intercom annonced, "Welcome to the Innovation Center. Where technology meets prehistory."
An enormous hallway laid out in front of them. In the middle was a large lineup of animatronic dinosaurs, life-sized. The very first one was an Apatosaurus.
Several children were in a sandpit, brushing away dirt, exposing fossils.
Nearby, a group of children watched a presentation explaining how the dinosaurs may have first became extinct.
On the other side of the hallway, a large globe had various dinosaurs placed in many countries, showing where their fossils had been found.
Gray ran up to a wall with a tablet, asking visitors to identify the four nucleobases in DNA.
Gray grabbed a pencil and quickly wrote down his answers.
"Cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine." Gray said quickly. "Same four things in everything that ever lived."
"Hey, don't wander off, alright?" Zach said. "Mom's not paying me for babysitting."
"Gray, is that you?" A voice called out.
The two boys turned to see Aunt Claire coming down from a staircase.
"Aunt Claire!" Gray said excitedly.
"Hi." Claire said happily.
Gray ran up to her and embraced her in a hug.
"Oh, oh my gosh, you are, you are so sweet." Claire chuckled. "Woah, Zach, last time I saw you, you were like..."
Claire motioned with her hand.
"That must have been what, three, four years ago?" Claire asked.
"Uh, seven." Zach corrected. "Seven years. But you know, close."
"So," Claire said, trying to get past the awkward introduction. "I see you already got your wristbands and this is for food." She handed gray an envelope with their names written on it. "And Zara here is going to take great care of you until I'm done working tonight, okay?"
"You mean you're not coming with us?" Gray asked.
"Oh," Claire said, "I really wish that I could but, um, tomorrow, I can take you into the control room. Show you behind the scenes and all of that. That, that's gonna be cool, right? Okay, so, um, I will see you tonight at...uh...six."
"No, no." Zara said. "Don't forget you have the..."
"Right, of course." Claire said. "So I will see you tonight at eight? What time do you go to sleep? Or, or do you go to sleep at different times?"
Claire looked at her watch.
"So, um, have fun." Claire said. She looked at Zara. "And take very good care of them, okay?"
A voice on the intercom messaged that Claire was wanted on the phone, and she hurried to a telephone box.