since Rick had Wed - Fri off work, Julianne had a dislocated shoulder (thus no skiing as previously planned), and the trailer now has new tires - we decided to go exploring. We didn't decide on where to go until moments before we left the house. We ended up in Green River, Utah with the plan to go to Goblin Valley. We did go to Goblin Valley and had a great time running around, on and over the hundreds of "goblin" rock formations in the valley (those little bumps in the background are 2 to 20 foot rock "goblins") .But the real
highlight ended up being our paleontology exploration of dinosaur fossils! We found a Green River brochure that described an off-road bluff that has at least a hundred rocks that have dinosaur bone fossils and / or casts of bones. Once we figured out what we were looking for, we saw tons! Carter and Elise are pictured proudly displaying a rock that has a cast of a sauropod (aka brontosaurus) neck.Another day we again went off-roading, this time to a location of some native American wall drawings. Elise deciphered that the drawings meant "new chief," and of course
we have no way to prove her wrong!When we decided to buy our trailer last year, this was the exact kind of impulsive weekends we'd hope we would do to create fun memories for and with the kids. Mission accomplished.
And of course, a true sign of a great vacation is wiped out kids. No, drugs were not needed to induce these slumbers. Looks like we need to invest in more pillows.
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