After we toured the museum, Amy took us to an outcrop to look for fossils. We invited our friends, the Collins family, to join us on this field trip. (l-r Amy Moe-Hoffman, Katelyn Collins, Hunter)
Follow the leader! =-)
We have had several weeks of rain here in the South. Much wetter than normal for this time of year! Amy gave us directions to follow her and be careful where we stepped because many areas were very slick. The kids and I were glad we wore our rubber boots! As you'll see in the rest of the pictures, we got very dirty, but it was a lot of fun!
The good part for us, all that rain had exposed a lot of fossils! Here, Amy helping Michaela find fossils.
Amy helped the kids identify their finds. (l-r Michaela, Amy, and Katelyn)
Hunter got a big find right away! We took it home and washed it up. It'll have to remain a surprise for now. ;-) I'll post those pictures later!
Eric Collins holding daughter, Miranda. She wanted so badly to get down w/ the rest of the kids. I should have had someone take a picture of me. At one point, Michaela got stuck in some mud that covered the top of her boots. She was very upset so I picked her up, which meant I became a big muddy mess! LOL! Poor Miranda would have been a mess, too.
'Say Cheese!' (top to bottom: Katelyn, Isaac Collins, Hunter and Michaela) I never can seem to get pictures of Isaac facing the camera!
"Ooooo, what did you find?"
As you can see, Hunter had a good time! You can also see what an unassuming location it was for the outcrop. Who would have thought that on the other side of the fence from where we were parked was an area rich with fossils just waiting to be discovered!
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