Yellowstone Trip Day Seven: Our last day, we toured Agate Fossil Beds!
This place was on my list, since it was near the route home and I knew the boys would love the bones! I had to talk my Daddy into it since fossils are really not up his alley! Turns out this National Monument also houses the James Cook Collection of Lakota gifted memorabilia, including many items from Red Cloud!!! My Daddy freaked out!! This is right up his alley and he couldn't believe he didn't even really want to go!! We were all in love with this little gem in the middle of nowhere! The Rangers were amazing and so informative! We didn't have time to do the hike but would love to go back!!
working on their Junior Ranger books!
Learning about all the prehistoric mammal fossils that were found in the hills right outside!!
Telling us about the winter count!
This Park Ranger was originally from New Orleans!
She was amazing and took a ton of time with the boys, and us!!
Red Cloud's (Lokota Chief) Shirt!
Badge Time!
The Fossil Beds
This was the last stop of the trip. Bitter sweet!!
We had so much fun and saw so many amazing things!
The boys ended up with seven new badges for their collections and we got lots of passport stamps!!
Hope their love for National Parks and nature never ends!!
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