Fossil Hunting

If you know Cason then you know he LOVES rocks and fossils. For his birthday he asked for a fossil digging kit and for Christmas he asked for a Geode kit. All Christmas Day he would break open a geode and then record his findings in his notebook. The teacher in me LOVED this! A while back one of Toby's coworkers told him about this dry riverbed where people went to hunt for fossils. They actually found a dinosaur skeleton there about 4 years ago. So the day after Christmas we drove an hour and a half to Ladonia, Texas to hunt for fossils in the "dry" riverbed. It was literally in the middle of nowhere. Our GPS couldn't even find it and we had NO cell service. We got there about 10:30 in the morning and spent a couple of hours hunting for fossils. In the pictures you will notice that the river was not dry, it was actually flowing. So it was MUDDY!!!! We all had to ride back home shoeless and the kids pantless!  Even with the mud we still had fun. We ate a picnic lunch in the rain, under the bridge. Luckily the kids were good sports and we managed to find some small fossils and some really pretty rocks. We will probably go back some day!

Can you see the amount of mud this child has on his shoes!? There was probably 2 inches caked to the bottom!