Month: June 2010

The loading day is just around the corner and our moving help has arrived from Manitoba. We’ve spent some days showing them around, which has also allowed us to say goodbye to some of our favorite places in Massachusetts. We went to our favorite lighthouse on Cape Ann where we spent a nice hour on the beach while the tide was out. We also collected a sample of sand to take with us back to the prairies.

Yesterday we wanted to show our guests the view from the top of Mount Greylock. Unfortunately, the fog and rain made visibility about 200 ft.

Today we went for a walk in Northampton and took a last turn around the track at Smith College.

Ichnologist – someone who studies fossilized footprints, typically dinosaur footprints. Yesterday we hiked the Dinosaur Footprints trail. It turned out to be a really short hike, even L thought the walk should have been longer, maybe he just didn’t want to go home.

We found the prints of a 3 toed meat eater related to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Lowell and L had fun walking in the tracks of a dinosaur.

K did fairly well on her first hike in the hiking backpack. It was close to nap time, but the hike wasn’t long enough to put her to sleep so she did complain a little.

After we had seen the prints we walked down to the river and skipped some stones. I’m not sure which L liked better, throwing rocks or being an Ichnologist.