4/18/2011

            Today was COOOOOOOOL. We got to go to College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum. Most of all the bones had been found at Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. So now I understand why there wasn’t a lot of bones at the quarry. Now back to the museum. We saw some cool exhibits. We also talk to somebody who was excavating a bone. I asked him the MEGA QUESTION: what did he think happened to the dinosaurs? He answered, “ The tipping point.”  He said that he thinks more then one thing happened that made the dinosaurs extinct. Also we got SOOOOOOO lucky. We go to hold a REAL dinosaur egg that was not in an exhibit. Not a lot of people got the chance to hold an egg  from a dinosaur that was not available to public. We saw bones of: Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Mammoths, Dire wolves, and more bones. So that was fun. [MH] after we came out of a canyon on the way to Provo there were like more than 16 wind mills!!!!!! One was pulled down and was being fixed while it was raining! We are driving to Provo from Price[ZH]. So sad....we were going to hunt for more pictographs and petroglyphs....a last hurrah, in Nine mile canyon.  It is supposed to be fabulous, with granaries from the Fremont people, petroglyphs and pictographs, and buildings left by the early settlers.  However, once again it is on steep dirt roads.  Myles found out there were 60% chance of T-showers.  I called BLM and they said 60% today, 90% snow or rain that night, and then 20-30% for the next few days.  I decided I didn't want to be stuck in the canyon for a few days, so I sadly turned Big Red north!  No more Rock Art hunting for this trip! {KS}