Hello, everybody.
I'm, as you know, Mrs.
E is pretty good at finding exciting places for us to visit.
If you remember back to Christmas, she found that Festival
of Light down at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens.
Well, today she's found something really interesting.
What are going to see?
Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs.
Be a bit more specific.
Oh, it's the Jurassic Encounter.
The Jurassic Encounter.
We're here at Newhailes Estate in East Lothian, just outside Musselburgh.
It's an absolutely glorious day.
And they've got hundreds of dinosaurs here, to be precise,
dinosaur animatronics.
But they look really realistic from the ones we've seen from the outside.
So do you fancy joining us for a walk round?
Welcome to RogVLOG.
Okay, let's head into the unknown.
Oh. Oh, oh.
It's our first dinosaur and it's a Protoceratops,
I think a Protoceratops is a little dinosaur.
And it was a plant eater too. So nothing to worry about here.
There's the Chanchunsaurus behind Mrs E?
Do you want to order that with you next Chinese dinner?
No, I'll think I'll pass, thanks.
Fried rice instead.
That's the Velociraptor.
That was the scary dinosaur from the Jurassic Park films.
That was the one that ran really fast.
It's obviously quite clever how they've done this.
There are all sorts of speakers that have been hidden in the undergrowth
and some of the sounds we can hear are like massive dinosaur feet
crunching and thunderously crunching on the ground.
So it really adds to the atmosphere.
You could almost suspend disbelief and think these things were real.
But I feel like I should reach out
and try and touch one of these things, see how realistic it feels.
But then again, I have no idea how a dinosaur feels.
So how would I know if it was realistic or not?
I feel like David Attenborough at this moment in time.
Now behind me is a Stegosaurus, the Stegosaurus with its plates
along the top of its back and those spikes on its tail.
This is one of the dinosaurs I used to remember from my schooldays.
I used to love a good Stegosaurus.
Even when there are dinosaurs crashing through the forest
or lurking behind every corner, Newhailes Estate is an absolutely gorgeous
place to come, especially on a beautiful, sunny day like this.
Plenty of woodland trails, places to explore.
And of course, there's that fantastic manor house
built in the 17th century.
And they've built this food court right here
on the lawn in front of Newhailes house.
How weird does it seem with all these food trucks,
with the dinosaurs in the background?
Right behind us is the Plesiosaurus.
Now, of course, these dinosaurs used to live in water.
And people reckon that if the Loch Ness monster exists, that it's a plesiosaurus.
So this is a there it is.
It's Nessie.
There's
this one's called Quinlingosaurus.
Now, I always used to think that the ones with the long necks
were called Brontosauruses, but no, apparently
Quinlingosaurus.
Thanks to Jurassic Park that has got to be the most famous
dinosaur of them all, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It just gives me the heebie jeebies just being this close to it.
And I know it's a model.
Another favourite, the Triceratops with three horns.
I'm sure there was a film in the 1960s called The Valley of Gwangi,
where a Tyrannosaurus had a battle with a Triceratops
just like this one.
This dinosaur sounds a bit constipated.
I think we survived, Mrs E.
We didn't get eaten. No, not yet, anyway.
Actually, it's about time for us to do the eating, I think.
Yeah, I'm famished. Starving.
Yeah. Let's go and find some food. Yay!
Well, we've had a fantastic time here this afternoon at Newhailes Estate
and the Jurassic Encounter.
Now, this is a great day out for the children.
The good news is that this tours around the UK,
so it isn't here at Newhailes all the time.
It's been touring all around the UK, stopping at similar sorts
of Royal Heritage sites.
So look out for the Jurassic encounter.
Mrs E, what did you think? I really enjoyed it.
It was good, entertaining, and some of the dinosaurs are brilliant.
It really was realistic.
I mean, we know that they're not real
and there's a suspension of disbelief, but it's great, great fun all the same.
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Until the next video, remember,
there's always something to see, so get out there and find it.
I feel a little bit like David Attenborough.
This moment now behind me is a Stegosaurus.
This is one of the dinosaurs that I remember really a lot
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