Lauren Bayne (middle-left), Oxford resident, admires the different dinosaurs with her daughter, Ellie (far-left) and younger siblings, Brogan (middle-right) and Ryann Bayne (far-right). Photo by Lily BayerThe truck sells nine different deep dish cookie flavors, including Oreo fudge brownie, peanut butter chocolate chip, snickerdoodle cinnamon roll, monster cookie and buttercream sugar cookie. Photo by Lily BayerThe exhibit featured fact boards about popular dinosaurs, including size comparisons to a person. Photo by Lily Bayer
I Heart Cookies has a large following on Facebook, where it posts updates about its in-person store in Wichita, Kansas, and its travels across the U.S. “Everywhere we travel, we pay for Facebook ads before,” Taylor said. “That’s how we get our people to come and have built our followers. We’ve been to all 50 states and target the small towns within them.” Photo by Lily BayerNine-year-old Ryann uncovers fossils in the sandbox. Photo by Lily BayerThe dinosaurs move in place and roar and are blocked off by cones for children’s safety. Photo by Lily BayerI Heart Cookies, a traveling deep-dish cookie food truck, hosted a dinosaur exhibit from 2 to 7 p.m. April 15 in the Gillman Home Center parking lot. The exhibit included 17 animatronic dinosaurs, including raptors, a T. rex and a triceratops. Photo by Lily Bayer
