I did get a really great one of Chey. After everyone else had gone for the night, we stayed and played poker with Eric, Leslie and Michael. Cheyenne had found a nice place to settle down for the night:
Too cute! Who needs a bed when you've got a hearth? :)
Sunday we took a drive to explore more area around us and I was sure to take pictures this time. We went down I-70 towards Green River and took a ranch exit, only 60 miles from home, to see the country you can't see from the highway. We were looking for a place to call coyotes or see prairie dogs or rabbits and we found gorgeous sights! With no real plan in mind we followed some signs that we thought would be interesting, such as the Mussentuchit Sand Dune. It's nothing like other sand dunes we've been to, however, this one was quite amazing in that it is a mountain of pure fine sand in the middle of rock.
On the way to the dune we saw a couple buildings that looked like old mine shafts but they had windows in them. The girls thought it was cool that they could stand on the roof. And they would have if they could have but we told them not unless they want to bust their heads.
The geology that we came across was absolutely amazing. Makes one wish to have pursued a career in it...or maybe...I'll just raise one instead!
We drove through Cat Canyon and went through layers and layers of earth. The picture below does not even do the sight justice. It looked like black fins all along the brown and red ridge.
The layers of colors and the curvature sure gets your mind a thinkin'. We sure love it.
Since we detoured a few times, we didn't make it to the part we really wanted to see before it got dark. Next time we'll go in the way we came out to see it first. But this is what we do, and living down here makes it so much easier and more enjoyable.
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