Menan Buttes

Field Trip number 2:

We went to the Menan Buttes on our second field trip. We were going to go to the North Butte (the one that is open to the public), but there were like a million school kids there, so that was a no-go. Luckily our resident-veteran-retired geology teacher lives on the other butte and you can only go on that one if you live there.

So, we learned about cool stuff and hiked around (which was so exhausting) and collected samples.

*Yes, I know that my hat is kinda dorky... but you have to understand that this is "standard" gear for a geologist :)*

At the Dunes and in a cave

First of all, let me apologize to Breck for not having more of him in some of these entries. As I mentioned before, I am taking a field-trip class that he is not in. That being said, here are some of my adventures!

On our first field trip we went to the Sand Dunes just north of Rexburg. It was windy and yucky, but still cool since I had never been there. We learned about stuff, but I will spare you guys the lecture :)

After that we went to the Civil Defense Caves, which are some pretty awesome lava tubes. It was a little bit too dark for a picture, but it was pretty awesome. The only downside to the cave was that there was so much trash in it! We even found a couch... yeah... that's random. Anyway, so our class did our civil duty and picked up the garbage that was in there. It will probably get filthy again during the next teenage rave (curse those kids :), but at least we got the warm fuzzies of doing it.

I almost forgot: So my professor, Brother Gahn, is a rediculously fast hiker and is notorious for leaving people in the dust. Well on the way out of the cave I caught up with him and we (along with a guy from my class, Brad) left everybody way behind. When we got out of the cave we went to the van and moved it out of sight so that the people coming out would be like, "Oh no, where's the van? THEY LEFT US!!!" Ha ha ha. It was so funny. We finally drove the van out of our hiding spot, much to the relief of the rest of the class.

I'm a slacker-face

Oh wow, it has been a rediculously long time since I have written anything. I freely admit that I am a complete slacker-face *sigh*. So to catch everybody up, I'm going to just give a breif review of our lives for the past few months.

We finished winter semester which was a relief. During the semester break we went to Jackson Hole to celebrate our 1 year anniversary (a little bit early). It was so nice, winter season was over, but summer had not started yet, so we were the only ones there (we only saw 10 other people in the resort town where we were staying).

Let's see, oh... Breck and I got RC cars that are beasts. Boo-yah. I'll have to take some pictures one of these days.

I started a new semester in April and am taking an awesome field trip class (more on that later).

A few weeks ago Breck and I went to Lagoon and had loads of fun.

Well, that's it for now... sorry that was lame-ish, but I will really try to be better!