Dino hunting

Emma and I traveled out to Maryland's dinosaur park this weekend to learn how to become paleontologists. The first rule is that if you find a dinosaur egg big enough to fit inside, you have ot climb in. Emma got that lesson right away. 

Next, we got instructions from state employees on how to look for dino fossils. Like, for real. They said all sorts of prehistoric remains are hidden on those hills in the back of the picture, and twice a month anyone is allowed to come in and help search through the rocks to help them identify it.

So Emma and I got to work. It's tough to concentrate on all those little pebbles, and sort out the orange ones from the black ones. But Emma really wanted to find evidence of an Astrodon (the official dinosaur of Maryland) so we got right to work.  

In the end, all we found was some 100-million-year-old wood fossils ... which is still pretty awesome. I'll have to go back someday when I have more time to see if there's a whole 20-ton dino hidden under there.