Gray and Zach ran down Main Street, looking for somewhere to go check out.
A voice on the intercom announced the next T. rex feeding.
"T. rex, T. rex, T. rex!" Gray screamed. "Come on, man! Come on!"
"Okay." Zach said, motioning for Gray to calm down.
"Come on!" Gray ushered.
The two brothers headed for the T. Rex Kingdom.
The attraction was a large paddock designed to look like a sequoia forest. The viewing area was built into an enormous sequoia tree suspended by two other trees growing threw it. It also had a large heady-duty glass window.
Attached to the tree was a tower where the announcer stood.
Nearby the tree, a goat was chained.
The announcer fired an M8 Flare pistol and the flare flew up into the air before landing on the ground near the goat.
Gray was hopping up and down, trying to get a good view.
As the Tyrannosaur emerged, the small crowd got excited.
As the Tyrannosaur ate the goat, several kids exclaimed in intrigued disgust.
Zach walked over to a telephone hanging on the wall.
He pulled out a quarter and called his mother.
"Hey mom." Zach said.
"You were supposed to call me when you landed." Karen said. She could hear the Tyrannosaur in the background eating its prey. She wished her son had picked a better time to call her. "You having fun?"
"Yeah." Zach said. "I guess. Aunt Claire gave us passes so we don't have to wait in line."
"Wait, she's not with you?" Karen asked.
As Claire drove her 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300sl down a road, her car phone began ringing.
"Hey Karen." Claire said.
"Hi Claire, how's it going?" Karen asked.
"Yeah, everything's great." Claire said. "The boys are having fun, everyone's...yeah...everyone's good."
"Really?" Karen asked. "Cause I just hung up with Zach and he said that you weren't even with them."
Claire sighed.
"Yeah, look. Today turned out to be a really bad day for me." Claire explained. "Um, they're in great hands. They're with my assistant and she's British, so, they invented nannies."
Karen began tearing up.
"Wait, are you crying?" Claire asked.
"This was supposed to be a family weekend, Claire." Karen said. "You haven't seen the boys in forever, and, and I know how Zach will treat Gray if they're by themselves and he can just be so mean."
"Okay, I'm, I'm sorry." Claire said. "Uh, tomorrow I'll spend the entire day with them, I'm going to take off work, and I will not leave their sight, I promise."
A man knocked on the window of the room Karen was in, pointing at his watch.
"Well, a promise tomorrow is worth a lot less than trying today." Karen said.
"Eugh, you're using mom's lines now?" Claire teased.
"Oh, my God, I am using mom's lines." Karen said. "I'm sorry, but you know I have to tell you they work. You'll see when you have kids."
"Yeah, 'if'..." Claire said.
"When..." Karen insisted. "It's worth it."
"Bye mom..." Claire said sarcastically.
"Bye." Karen said quietly.