Day two was Dino Day, we headed up to Dinosaur Ridge in the mountains and took a tour of the ridge, which was by far the best $4 tour I've ever taken! The tour guide was rather cute (and an archaeology major) and there was a biker couple on the tour that knew quite a bit about geology and archaeology so TJ (the tour guide) went further into detail than he probably normally would. Our half an hour tour turned into 45 minutes because of the in depth discussions, but it was pretty cool to listen to. We got to see all kinds of dinosaur fossils, dino tracks and a RATTLESNAKE!! It was pretty sweet. The snake was a baby, it was SO cute!
Dinosaur track. The one on the left is the baby Iguanodon and it's about the size of an adult human hand. The one on the right is the adult Iguanodon, a hand can fit in one of its toes!!
Our cute tour guide, TJ. See his "I <3 Dino" shirt?!
Left: A Stegosaurus rib bone
Right: A jawbone, the circle in the middle is a cross-section of a tooth.
The indentation in the layers is where a Brontosaurus stepped lots of years ago. TJ said that, that part of Colorado used to be a flat river way back in the day, so this dinosaur was most likely walking through soft mud near the river bank. But as you can tell, it was super heavy because of all the layers beneath it that it disturbed. Also, where that flat spot is on the bottom of the foot print is practically a cast of a Brontosaurus foot. How sweet is that?! More dino tracks below.
Left: Random cute cactus I found.
Right: There's a fault line that runs right next to the mountains. You can see where it zigzags in the background. Obviously by the photo it's called the Golden Fault.
The baby rattlesnake I found.
Panoramic of the Red Rocks. Another photo of the Red Rocks below.
A view of downtown Denver from the expressway.
After we got some dinner, we headed out to go putt putting at this place called Putter's Pride. This place was giant! It was only $7 and there were three different courses that you could pick from or you could pay $10 and do all three. But we wanted to go play Geeks that Drink later so we only did one of the courses. I still sucked at it, but had a ton of fun! Jen's roommate Annie, came with us and kicked our butt in the beginning, but in the end Jen beat us all!! We chilled with Nessie, as you can see below and even made a little bunny friend.
Jen was awesome and got a hole in 1!!
After putt putt was all done we went to this place called Jonesy's because it's my last name, and played trivia. I was terrible...even the round about candy, I barely knew any answers, but it was still fun. The place was kind of expensive and the food wasn't the greatest. I wouldn't recommend going there, but the Geeks that Drink was fun and are held at other places so I'd check those out.
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