Frequent Flier Miles for Dinosaurs

If you're from the Black Hills, you might have wondered (or already heard) what happened to Sue, the T. Rex, since she was unearthed a few years ago in west-central South Dakota near Faith. You might remember that she was housed at the Black Hills Institue of Geological Research in Hill City, SD, prior to being auctioned by Sotheby's in 1997. As most of you reading this probably know, the Field Museum successfully acquired the T. Rex and subsequently, built a really neat permanent installation to house her at the museum in Chicago, IL. So, what does any of this have to do with Texas? Well, it's Saturday afternoon, and A. and I were looking around on-line, trying to find a list of the tourism must-do's here in South Texas: we're all about partaking in anything remotely touristy. Luckily, we found just such a list on the San Antonio Convention and Visitor's Bureau website. The weird part is that one of San Antonio's "must sees" is, duh duh duh, to visit the Sue exhibit, which includes a life-size cast of the T.Rex, on loan from the Field to the local Institute of Texan Cultures museum. Here is the link: http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/
public/communications/events_calendar.htm For more Sue trivia, you can see part of the Field Museum's Sue exhibit online at: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/whosue.html. So, there really is more of South Dakota in Texas than just little ol' me.