Digging for Dinosaurs

 We were able to go to a Dinosaur dig - our dig site was called DF... as in DON"T FALL!!!

and I thought I'd give you some perspective - so you could see why it was called that... it was a steep drop off!

Proof I was there too!!!! Don't you love my Adventure hat? It is so cool, it breathes, and when you are me, and it is 101deg  That is important.  And it has a pony tail hole - so my hair stayed put!

But!!!! you notice my son? he is WAY tougher than I am... Long sleeves!!! oh my!

( enough on clothes!)

This is the rock that we were digging in. I just knew that we would find a whole dinosaur - and we would get to call it a Carmin o saurus!!!!

We did find bones!! Not a whole dinosaur - but check it out!!! A bone!!!

and Bone Pieces.  So when you find bones - you are supposed to be real careful and pick them out. Anything larger that a Quarter gets mapped and listed in the book, so they can figure out how they all go together.

This was the view from our Dig Site.  The dig was super amazing to do, but super hot - and of course, you had to sit in the dirt. Every once in a while I just needed to get up and stare out into the wild... just in case a WHOLE dinosaur came roaming up!

We also went to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center....IT WAS FABULOUS!!!! There were so many dinosaurs that were found in Wyoming, Colorado and North Dakota ( I am sure there were more)

Check out these skeletons!!

they are COMPLETE!!!

I think the one above is Jimbo to Supersaurus. he was found in Douglas Wyoming and is 107 feet long.

We were told there have only been 4 complete skeletons found, and at this time - they found another bone that they think belongs to the 5th supersaurus.  We got to see the bones they are working on and they are removing it from the matrix.

This museum had so many skeletons, and SO MUCH information on each species, it was truly overwhelming.  I tried to take pictures of them and the info plaques next to them .

When I got free time I read the again, and still was SO impressed by the info on them!!

Of course, if you know us - we have to play with our cameras to see what we can do.....

No one else was there at the time - so we felt we weren't interrupting anyone's experience ;-)

can you see the difference in size of these two dinosaurs... it was CRAZY!

Thanks for joining us on this segment of our trip!!  we really had fun and our brains hurt and we were hot... so we headed to the One Eyed Buffalo for burgers and fries..

I do have to tell you - if you are in Thermopolis - that restaurant is worth a stop ( or two) the Burgers are out of this world, and the fries and amazing.... and they brew their own beer... made my son happy!!

Enjoy!!

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