Fossil hunting

Ben told me first thing this morning that it would be a good day for fossil hunting. I wasn't convinced because it's the first of December and getting colder each day. But, by the time I picked Ben up from school (11:30am), it was getting pretty nice out. We headed home to eat lunch and gather our supplies. I had two happy campers by the time we were headed out for our favorite digging spot.
Happy Camper #1

Happy Camper #2

Check out the sky - it was beautiful!

The boys would have preferred to jump right in but we had strict rules on this outing - no getting wet. If someone gets wet, we are heading straight home. It was nice outside but still way to cold to play in the water.

They did great. They dug and filled their buckets with rocks.

No one got wet. Pretty impressive balancing.

When they finished hunting in the water, we moved up to dry land and dug out some larger rocks.

Ben did the digging. Liam did the loading.

Good work, guys!

And, a nice chat about the adventure on the way back to the car. Well done boys.