It's raining dinosaurs. Hallelujah.

I didn't write last week cause I had the day off to go to Vernal. Usually that isn't a positive thing. It's like saying I had the day off to dig a hole to nowhere, but Vernal is actually a really cool place. I wanted to go there because I've never been there and I want to start exploring more. I have my places that I like to go every year because they're awesome. And let's be honest, whenever I have enough money my first thought is to go to Disneyland.
For this trip I really wanted to go check out the Dinosaur National Monument. When I first booked it I went to the website, and it said they had 12 days of activities to do. My first thought was that is bull. Holy crap, though. When we got down there I realized just how much there is to do. Vernal is an extremely pretty valley, with a ton of little canyons. In one canyon there are Native American Petroglyphs. In another canyon there are two really pretty lakes. We went to Red Fleet Reservoir. It's an amazing lake at the top of a mountain surrounded by really cool rocks. The water temperature is 70 degrees. We spent a few hours there, and eventually rented a kick boat. That was a tremendous mistake. They're incredibly hard to get moving, and they're really hard to control Not to mention there were two weirdos that kept saying we weren't moving nearly fast enough. We rented it for an hour, made it 15 minutes. Par for the course.
We went to the Dinosaur National Monument which is about 15 miles outside of town. If you haven't been there in a while, or have never been there, I highly recommend it. You go into the visitor center, and then take a shuttle up to the wall of bones. It's literally a wall of dinosaur bones. Back in the early 1900's the man who discovered the find had taken so many bones out of there, and there were still a ton more. He petitioned the government to keep the rest of the wall as it is and make it a national monument for education purposes. There is a section of wall that gives you the ability to actually touch a dinosaur bone. The girls thought it was the coolest thing! They absolutely loved it. The whole trip was one big adventure. We did a lot of swimming, and ate mostly at good places. The King Tut and Dinosaur Cafe was not good. With a name like that I should have known better. Country Grub was fantastic, and Mirinda invited Betty from Betty's Cafe to come and live with us.
The only weird thing about Vernal is every place you go to eat they have Pepsi on tap. I mean every place. I couldn't figure out why it was every place. Finally when we're on our way out of town there was a Pepsi bottling plant. It all made sense. I think I kind of like Pepsi again. I've sworn it off for so many years, but Crystal Pepsi came back and it made me so happy it softened my heart towards Pepsi.
I hope everyone had a fantastic Pioneer Day. I certainly did. Took Mirinda and Priya up to Lagoon, and we spent most of the day there Those two are so adorable. I had them take an old timey photograph dressed as cowgirls. They were so excited. We ate an incredible amount of sugar. Like incredible amounts of sugar. That's what the pioneers would have wanted.
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