Steamboat Springs is great. This morning we got up and had some Mighty Bites cereal and then drove about 2 miles up stream from the campground, where there was some convenient parking for us to stop and inflate the Raft! Yup, we went on a little white water rafting trip today with our $30 raft – it was awesome! The Yampa River was a bit low, but that didn’t deter us! We went down some fun fun little rapids – and I got to steer which is the most fun thing EVER! We got stuck on one big rock, but it didn’t seem to damage the boat at all. We did however have one casualty on the river – my paddle broke right in half at the end… too much pushing on the rocks I suppose. Boy oh boy, though, it was so much fun. I cannot WAIT to get a canoe and go white water canoeing again. I LOVE IT!



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Well, that was just a great way to start the day - then I hopped on the free shuttle bus from the campground where we got out of the river and went to get the car. Next we (sadly) left Steamboat and headed to Dinosaur National Monument – and Utah. Don’t bother going into the East entrance, as it just ends and there is not a visitor center or ranger station. I suppose if you want to go fishing, that would be the place to go – other wise it is a 30-45 minute detour. Well, we did find a visitor’s center and were told to hurry and get to the quarry so we could see some dinosaur bones. We decided not to do any other parts of the park – again, we felt tired and not really energized for much today.

The quarry was neat though. It was hard for me to look at the rock wall with all these bones and fossils and wrap my head around the fact that they Really are bones of Dinosaurs! So neat. Apparently much of the hillside as been taken away and put in other museums, so what is left today is only a small fraction of what they found there.

After looking at femur bones the size of Bryan, we headed North to the Flaming Gorge area and found a nice little campground at Skull Creek. We had a kick butt fire tonight and I had the tastiest toasted marshmallows YET! Yummeee!