DiNoSaUrS

For Memorial Weekend we decided to take a family vacation. Since Hallee loves dinosaurs (she loves to pretend to be a dinosaur, she makes up all sorts of dinosaurs and characteristics of the dinosaur she is) we decided to go to Vernal out to the Dinosaur Quarry and Museum. I didn't realize that Vernal is actually one of the largest dinosaur bones discoveries in the whole world. The quarry is actual closed right now, it is unstable for the public, but will open in 2012, but that is where all the dinosaur bones are being found, but they made other things available to the public to see. So we went on a little hike back into some rocks, and we were able to see some dinosaur bones in the side of a rock slab. We were also able to take a drive in the same area and see petroglyphs, these are carvings in the side of rocks made by the Fremont Indians anywhere from 600 years ago to 1400 years ago- very neat!! The rock formations out there are amazing, they are different colors each layer, and each color of the rock represents and era, and where they find the bones in the rock, they are able to tell which era the dinosaur lived in, it was amazing.
>We also went to the Museum right in Vernal, we got to see lots of dinosaur bones and footprints of dinosaurs.
The girls had a blast staying in a hotel, they didn't want to come home. We had some fun adventures with the girls, Zak had some fun bathroom experiences with Blyss, and I had fun cleaning up puke from her getting car sick, while we were stuck in traffic and couldn't pull over, thank goodness for our van, that made it easy to move around in, and good thing we had baby wipes!! One funny story with Hallee is, It was lunch time and Zak asked Hallee what she felt like eating, she responded, "Carmel Brownies." Zak told her he didn't know of a restraunt that sold carmel brownies, so asked her what else she felt like eating, she responed, "carmel popcorn." I just had to laugh, because that little girl would eat sweets all day long if we let her.

Actual footprints of dinosaurs and a leg bone.

Some bones of a baby stegasaurs

Sicaly and bones of another Stegasaurus

Diploducus

Allosaurus

This dinoaurs was huge!!!!! I believe it is another diploducus

petroglyphs

A small cave they figured the indians use, you can look out for miles from this cave, close by lots of petroglyphs

more petroglyphs

Hallee next to rock where there are dinosaur bones, I honestly don't know how they find them, they blend into the rocks so well.