24 August 2009

Yesterday we drove out to Iowa City to visit cousins and went to the Fossil Gorge. It's a big ditch by Coralville Lake. In 1993 (?) a big flood washed out the ditch, which is part of the spillway for the lake, and uncovered a bunch of slate filled with fossils. Lots of fun to walk around and climb on and look at. Also there are lots of sinkholes and loose rocks to throw in them. Nut Brown thought he'd died and gone to heaven. And I take back calling him a little monkey. He's a mountain goat.