Fossils are seriously cool...

[agilebrit]

Especially when you dig them up yourself.

I didn't get lost on my way to the quarry (yay!), and we arrived there at around 10:40, after leaving at 7:40. We bashed rocks for two hours, and got lots of pretty nice specimens. I swear, I brought home about forty pounds worth of rock. Oog.

And naturally, I forgot to take my painkillers before we left. So I took them when we got home (around 4:10), and am feeling somewhat better now. I'll have to sort through what we got and see what's worth keeping.

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

That sounds like so much fun!!! And it's actually something I wanted to do when I first moved to Utah and never got around to doing... something else to add to the list of things to do on summer vacations, I guess (I finally hiked up to Timpanogos Cave earlier this year... after living at the base of Mt. Timp for nine years and never going).

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

We have saphire mines and places where you can pan for gold around here. I did a field trip with the USS Appomattox years ago. I didn't do much digging. I was the CO so I just got the red shirts to do the work.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I love fossils! I bought a very attractive Ammonite that had fire opals formed on it to give as a gift to my sister. I hope she thought it was cool...

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I look forward to pictures of cool fossils. Feel better!