Almost Eaten and Blown Away

We packed up our campground this morning and headed for the Fremont Indian State Park. As part of our campground fee, we got free admission to the museum where we got an introduction to the Fremont people and the park. We took a short hike to see petryoglyphs.

 Then we climbed down into a pit house like the Fremont used to live in.

After exploring for a little while, we climbed into the van and drove on toward Colorado. We arrived at Fruita and found our campsite about 4:00pm. There is a dinosaur museum there we wanted to go to that closes at 5:00pm, so we hurried over there before setting up our tent.

My favorite part was the giant T Rex, which was new from when we were there a couple years ago. Heather and I almost got eaten.

The kids had fun digging for bones in the quarry pit, something they remembered from last time. 

We returned to camp to set up the tent and make pasta for dinner. Then we took showers and got into the tent for the night. It started raining hard and was super windy. The porch blew into our tent and started knocking the front over, then the wind was blowing over my side of the tent. It was crazy, I was kneeling in the corner of the tent trying to keep it from collapsing on us while it engulfed me. Thankfully, the porch fell the rest of the way to the ground and the wind died down and we were able to get to sleep.

This picture doesn't do the situation justice, the tent really was folding all around me from the crazy wind.