Not sure it ever got above freezing here today.... sunny, but still darn cold outside. In fact it is only 23 degrees out there right now, way to cold for comfort. With that being said though it was still a nice day to be out and about, even if it was only for a couple of hours.

    Looked up the address of the park I had been looking for yesterday. Big Bone Lick State Park. With an actual address Emma had no problem leading me right up to the front gate of it. Turns out we were within two miles of it yesterday. If there had been one more sign pointing the way it would of been easy, but we took a hard right at a road that would take us back to a known highway instead.

    The park was actually open today although the camping part of it hasn't opened up for the season yet. To cold!!!!! They have a nice little museum there to showcase some of the fossils and bones they have dug out of the ground over the years. This site was a natural salt lick for 10's of thousands of years. Meaning that water from springs coming out of the ground would have low levels of salt dissolved in the water that would then be deposited on the ground as the water would evaporate away. Animals of all kinds would be drawn to these deposits  because of their need of salt. Unfortunately a lot of the surrounding ground in this area was rather swampy and mucky and if the critters wern't careful they ended up getting caught in the muck and dieing there. So there are thick deposits of animal bones here dating back 20,000 plus years. Native Indians knew of the area of course because they would also come to gather salt for their own use, but they thought many of the animal bones, such as woolly mammoth and ground sloth were 'devil' animals that their own god had killed off.

   European 'white' men learned of the site as soon as scouts started coming into the country in search of new land and riches. Both Lewis and Clark had been to the site, but at different times, collecting bones for Thomas Jefferson. Later on the area was turned into a resort spa where rich people could come and sit in mineral pools and drink some of that yucky smelling and tasting water.

   No actual digs going on right at the moment, but it looks like they have plenty of area that can still be excavated. I would imagine that it is the same problem every area like this has... no money for it. So there wasn't actually that much to see outside. It was still nice to walk their mile or so of trail and boardwalk and read all of the signs they had posted. An hour of that though and it was time to go find some place a little warmer. There may or may not be photo's at some point. I took some, but it's hard to tell if they are all that interesting.

   Off to Micky D's afterwards for some ice cream and a chance to log onto a decent WiFi signal. The one here at camp is okay for some things, but no video's, no opening more than one site at a time, etc... Even now it keeps bombing out on me. Caught up on my email, checked some web sites and reserved a couple camping sites for next month.

    Tonight it was time to watch a cheap movie, Beverly Hills Cop II, and read my book. Have just enough 'umph' to see if I can get the most recent version of The Big Bang Theory to load up. Big day tomorrow, the dance starts tomorrow night at 8:00, so not much more time before going to bed.