DINOSAURS!!!

Next week I will be staying at the lovely Port Waikato School Camp with the rest of my field geology class. I get to spend seven days wandering around the New Zealand countryside with a compass and a hammer as I "learn" important field geology skills. I'm just kidding about the quotes around "learn", I'm sure I will actually learn quite a bit. 

This field geology course is worth as many credits as any other course, but it only meets once for the week long trip. We do have to pay $150 for transportation and food which is kind of steep for me, but it turns out that the school hires a professional chef to do all of the catering. She is even going to use lactose free milk for my meals. Isn't that nice?

I am most excited about the days where we will be mapping the landscape by identifying biostratigraphic markers from the Jurassic period. That means dinosaur bones. Well, not actual dinosaur bones, more like coral and bivalves and things like that, but they were around when dinosaurs were around. 

While I'm gone, my blog will automatically post a entry that I have written in advance. I'm calling the series: It's Different Here.

Dinosaurs, how cool is that?