I told the kids they'd be digging for dinosaur bones on this trip, not realizing that the dig sites for those kinds of bones apparently are in a different state. And so we found the next best thing, which turned out to be a really cool thing - the Mammoth Site.
We started with a tour of the dig site, learning about how the different kind of mammoths (Wooly and Columbian) and how they came to get stuck in a sink hole, which is why there are so many fossils in this one location.
AJ, in particular, was fascinated by it all. Sydney seemed more curious about a different relic: the phones with cords that we used to listen to the guide.
After the tour, we found all sorts of neat things to play with: like fossil replicas, which of course the kids had to try to lift. AJ speculates this "was probably the leg bone of a mammoth or something."
(Note to my sister: is this the bone you take annual photos of your kids carrying?)
Next we found a hut made out of pretend mammoth fossils. That was Sydney's favorite place to play.
AJ's favorite goof off moment? The skull of the short-faced bear.
Coincidentally, he ended up digging one of those up later in the day as part of the Junior Paleontologist program, which turned out to be a high point of the trip. I've got lots of pictures of the kids sifting through the sand, and so will share those tomorrow.
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