South Dakota here we come…

right back where we started from!

I sang that the whole way back from our Wyoming trip.  It was lovely and all, but I was over living out of my bag.  So we started our trip at Devils Tower which is a very rare phonolite rock that shows columnar jointing.  Amazing.

The Pennsylvania girls at Devils Tower.

We stayed a night in Tensleep, Wy. which is really adorable.  We went out for dinner and made friends with this guy named Wes and he took us for a suprise the next day!!!

DINOSAURS!!!!  It was the BEST suprise ever!  And it gets better.  Wes, the guy who took us out the the site, mentioned they get sent to Pennsylvania to be assembled and I figured they went to the maybe the Franklin, The Wagner, or Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.  I thought this would be really cool because I’m taking Vertabrate Paleontology next semester  and I might get a behind the sceenes look at them in the museum.  So I’m like, “Hey Wes, where in Pa do these dinosaurs go?” and he was like, “Sunbury” and I almost fainted (Sunbury’s my home town).  So now I have a little scout mission to do in Sunbury next week  : )

Me and a femur.

Wes and I for proof : )

And then we went and learned lots of geology stuff that is far too much to type up here but if you ever see me and are interested just ask.  But here’s lots of pictures!!!

Bear Tooth Mountains

Yellowstone's Grand Canyon

At a coal mine.

At the Stillwater Mine (this one was underground, thus the attire)

A mapping spot.

Temple ladies!! We're going to send this to our structural geology professor.

Lecture stop. I was scared out of my mind.

The Grand Tetons!!

Emily at Suprise Lake while hiking the Grand Teton!

View from the top!

Some of us at the top. We were the middle group up.

Us with the Grand Teton in the back!

And it was Mandy's birthday so we had a birthday dinner!!

And this was right by our one mapping project of glaciers so there was a lake right there (Fremont) and I went swimming there and it was freezing but it was great!!!  I really wish I had pictures, it was fabulous.  And I had water in my ears for days!

Here’s the Lake!

Teddy and Sprinkles on the top of Independence Rock!! You would not believe how hard it is to climb in converse!

So Melissa is Teddy because she was going to be Theodore if she were a boy and I’m Sprinkles because one day Janelle said, “Make up your minds, people,” and I was like, “Did you just call me sprinkles??”  Happy fourth!