First up is this lovely carved Spinosaurus (my favorite dinosaur!) from Peru! I had some fun with her, as you can see from all my goofy pictures. She's super cute and will be gracing my desk at grad school for the forseeable future!

Then there was a lovely illustrated book about feathered dinosuars- and a mysterious wrapped package. What could it be?

Oh. Oh my. It’s the issue of National Geographic where they announced feathered dinosaurs. As perhaps witnessed by the pictures with my birds, I adore the fact that birds are just feathery little dinosaurs, and this is basically where that was announced. It came wrapped in plastic, where it’ll stay most of the time- but I opened it up to the centerfold for you guys to see. This was a really, really cool and thoughtful gift- thanks so much, dinosanta!