The Land Where Dinos Roam

We decided to enjoy a family get-a-way over Labor Day Weekend before the kids went back to school.  I have never been to the National Dinosaur Monument in Vernal and the last time John went was way back in his younger years.  It was time for him to return and for the girls and I to experience REAL dinosaur bones for the first time.  

 This picture above really does not do it justice.  It is a humungo wall full of dinosaur bones embedded into the rock.  Simply awesome.  

We spent Saturday morning checking out the bones and museum, then went on a couple of hikes through the area. 

We even got some fishing in at Steinaker Lake where we were camping - no catches though as it started to rain shortly into our fun.

And rain it did.  For a couple of hours, along with the wind whipping at the tent and the thunder and lighting storm circling around our campsite. While we waited for it to pass, we played some games in the tent.   

This was of course, after the camp host told us it very rarely rains in Vernal.  

Guess we were the lucky winners experiencing a rare storm.

Thankfully, the sun came out in time for us to cook up some dinner.

One of our new favorite things to cook with our dinners while we are camping is corn on the cob cooked directly in the fire pit with their husks still wrapped around them.  

They are De-li-cous.  

Of course, we did our usual Dutch-oven dinner on the other night we were there, and then enjoyed some game time with the older girls after the younger two went to bed.

 We got them hooked on Rage and played both nights.

(Some may know it as Mormon Bridge - a true family favorite)

 We also visited the Dinosaur Museum in town where the girls got to learn how to be Paleontologists digging for bones.

On the way home, we stopped at Strawberry Reservoir to do some more fishing.

The girls quickly gave up fishing and started catching craw fish.  

  They caught a whole bucketful of them.

Indeed, it was a fun weekend, and now that we don't have any more babies, it is a much more delightful experience camping as a family.