Dinosaur Museum

I think I have mentioned that every Monday the Dinosaur Museum has family nights where they have extra activities going on with a theme. We went on the 7th of February and it was Cupid's Valentine Mask-querade. The night did not start out well. First of all a blizzard had just begun outside when we got there. That was a sign of what was about to come. We got there 10 minutes before it started so we were just walking around the lobby waiting for the booths to be set up. In that short amount of time I lost Aidan. He had wandered off. I didn't panic at first because I was sure he was close by. I started to look for him and began to yell his name. After a few minutes started to pass I began to panic. I was frantically looking everywhere. In the gift shop, the bathrooms all over the lobby and I even quickly ran through the museum yelling his name. I came back out to the lobby and told some workers that I had lost my son and I began to bawl! They asked me a few questions about him and told me it was going to be okay that they would find him. They told me to stay put. I just stood there crying, making a huge scene I'm sure! Then out of nowhere after a few minutes a worker came walking out with Aidan. Aidan was gone a total of ten minutes. He was totally laughing until he saw me crying and when I took him by the arm he stopped his laughing. I wanted to ring his neck! Instead I just hugged him and told him to never do that to me again! By this point I just wanted to leave. I was so embarrassed. But I didn't. I stuck it out and let them participate in the activities. So from these pictures you could never tell the traumatic experience I just had.