U-Dig Fossils

Our latest adventure with RAH... U-Dig Fossils in good old Delta, Utah. While many have heard of Delta, few have ever been there, or know where it is. Trust me, it's in the middle of nowhere and it's not that exciting. Going south on I-15, you turn off at the Nephi exit and continue west. And you keep driving for about 50 miles, turning once on a connecting highway till you hit Delta, a small town with a population of just over 3,000. So we looked around at a museum and a store and ate out and watched the Jazz game that night in the hotel. The next day, we got in the van and drove another 30 miles and then turned off on a rocky bumpy road for 20 miles to get to the U-dig place. This place just has piles and piles of rocks and you go out with your safety glasses, gloves, rock hammer, and bucket and just pound away at rocks looking for trilobites. There are quite a few of them actually. But a lot of times, you open the rock and there is nothing. I found a bunch of little guys, and a couple of larger ones that I gave to the participants. You actually hit the sides of the rocks to open them like a book, rather than breaking the rocks in half on the surface side... does that make sense? After a while, i was having more satisfaction pounding rocks and breaking them apart than finding the fossils. We were there for almost 3 hours and everyone went home with some new fossilized friends.

Me and my safety glasses and rock hammer!

Searching for fossils!

Look closely and you can see some of the imprints on the rocks. About an inch and a half long.

Just some small guys on these rocks. About half an inch long.

Randomness

Well I have random pictures on my camera that I don't know what I would say in a post about them but I think everyone should see them (for no real reason really) and so I've decided it just needs to be a random picture post. So here it is!

Me and Michelle at Christmas in Portland. It was the first picture I took with my new camera.

Alyssa. She looks like she's rising out of the bed or standing behind it or in the middle of it or is being sucked into it... but it's none of those things. We were just sitting and talking and I had to take a picture because her position looked so odd! Care to explain yourself Alyssa?

Towels folded into animals on the cruise ship. They greeted us with mints every night.

Andrea, me, and Kendra. It was an uneventful night in early January before anyone had come back for the semester. Kendra wanted to do a mask and so Andrea and I joined in. We could be in a horror movie... or at least a comical horror movie.

Alyssa's feet. And her laptop. And the top of her head. Our beds are in an L in our room and her bed is raised a bit higher than mine. I was going to sleep one night and this is what I saw from where I was lying down.

Thanksgiving Point animal farm. We took 29 participants here and saw lots of animals. Me and Mr. (or Mrs?) Goat. It looks like a beautiful day but trust me, we froze our tooshies off out there.

The peacocks at the animal farm. I took this picture because I've never seen an all white peacock before. Well, not that I can remember. Maybe I have seen one at West Ed Mall? In any case, the peacocks didn't open up, probably too cold.

Not the animal farm. This is Acapulco, Mexico. An old fridge in the yard with a chicken inside sitting on the eggs... how much more random can it get? The end.