I woke up at 9 am this morning. I felt really guilty about sleeping so late, until Lauren said he had got up at 8 am. We were both tired from the 5:30 am wake up call from the hail storm yesterday.
Being we got up so late, after drinking our coffee, we decided to have lunch before we went hiking in Dinosaur National Monument. As we were eating, we had a knock on the door. Jim Carver stopped by. We had a great visit.
We took the the asphalt queen on the gravel road to Josie Morris' cabin and hiked the Box Canyon and Hog Canyon trails. Very pretty. I kept thinking how strong Josie must have been to have lived off the land in the middle of nowhere until she was 90 years old. OMG!!!
On the way back down the dirt road we stopped and took a hike up the hill to find petroglyphs. It was addictive, the more we found, the more we wanted to find. We had to be careful as we were looking up the hill side to watch our footing. Lauren was, (as always,) more adventurous than me. He went on the little goat trail around the side of the mountain to see what was on the other side, as I was scooting back down on all fours on the loose gravel heading back down. He saw a beautiful view of Split Mountain and then passed me by on the way down. As I have said before, I have a fear of heights.
We thought about going back to camp after we had hiked about 5 miles. We stopped at the visitor center and checked out the Fossil trail. It was kind of boring until we saw a Dinosaur spine in the hill. Again, we were amazed at the excitement of looking up the hill and finding dinosaur bones. We now have a new past time, petroglyphs and paleontology. Who would have thought it??
When we returned home, Ferny had to come outside. She kept patting, digging, and exploring under our outside rug. Who knows, maybe she is "digging up bones," she may become a cat paleontologist.
Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/vHLnKpK6JBfUBC9S9
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