Gold Dinosaurs

This post is about an endangered species. 

Gold Dinosaurs. 

That's right, GOLD dinosaurs. Put another way, gold DINOSAURS. 

GOLD DINOSAURS. 

Get it? 

Not the gold you find in jewelry, and not the dinosaurs you see in a museum or Spielberg movie;

the gold dinosaur you see in this picture:

Still don't get it? (I don't blame you - I'm hard to follow)
Here's the story:

It was the first day of moving in to the new apartment. I was ready to start school, meet the roommates, get back into a routine, ready to meet people and make new friends, ready to room with Markie, and most importantly ready to UNPACK. I however, was the last person in my apartment to arrive, so everyone had already gotten their stuff out and in the open. And what do I walk in to see sitting in the front room?

Gold dinosaurs.

Hahaha, very funny new roommates. Plastic dinosaurs spray painted gold? Is this some sort of post-modern interior design scheme that incorporates prehistoric figures into the decorating scheme?
...Is this a joke?
Maybe one of my roommates has a younger sibling, and they left their toys here. Yeah - that's it.

But no, that was not it. The gold dinosaurs stayed. But not only that, they multiplied. And they all congregated in the front room.
I don't have a very red personality (see: the color code), so I decided to just see how things would play out.

First, I tolerated them.
 - I got used to them.
Then, I started to arrange them. 
I noticed that whenever boys came over, they played with them.
Next we took an impromptu photo shoot with them.
Then they got put away one day and the front room looked wrong. 
Then, I named some of them. 

And then I realized - I LOVE those dinosaurs!

After thinking about it, I came to conclusion that gold dinosaurs were going to be a theme for my life - I just didn't know it yet.
This whole semester has been gold dinosaurs for me.
Things I can't control, that I might dislike, but that I have to come to love. And I DO come to love.

So, this month I'm going to be talking about gold dinosaurs - and trust me, they're becoming an extinct species.

All my upcoming posts will be about experiences where I've found the good in weird / unwanted situations and life.

It's going to be an adventure :)

Megs