Sunday, September 12, 2010

Bringing the Voo Doos to the Hoo Doos!

It's been quite a week! I've made friends with these awesome chicks at work, and we all went to Drumheller this weekend. Drumheller is in the middle o the Badlands where they found a lot fo dinosaur fossils, and there is a world class museum all about it. For the bargain entry fee of $10 each (but we had coupons, so it was only $5 each!!) we had a look around, and it was so amazing! They have so many fossils there, it was crazy!







After that we drove around the area. There are these crazy colored stripes all over the rocks in that area, and they have these eroded rock formations called Hoo Doos, which are when there is a capstone which is made of harder rock, and the limestone base underneath begins to erode away. The ones we saw had eroded a lot, compared to a picture from the 1900s that was on display there.







After that, Jacqueline took us to a town called Strathmore. Her parents have an RV that they camp out in on weekends, at this RV park. It was so cool, theres a beautiful lake about 50m from their RV site, and theres a petting zoo for kids. We met her family and their friends, and made S'mores around the campfire! We don't have S'mores in NZ, so you make them like this: get a Graham cracker (more like a cookie than a cracker) and put some chocolate on it, toast a marshmallow and put it on the chocolate, top with another graham cracker. It's so yummy!!!







Til next time!

xoxo Laura

4 comments:

  1. Those S mores looks yummy and also a bit like those Hoo Dons! Awesome fossils. I am so proud of you 2 to remains so motivated to endeavor all things new.
    Glad you have made some friends. How kind of Jacquiline to introduce you to her family.
    May Lee has arrives in China and called us from the Forbidden city!(your great grandfather Lie would be so happy in his grave,i am sure) love,mum

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  2. Hi Laura and Stacy,

    Nice Hoo Doos!!You both enjoy your new place.
    Soon you will become real Canadian people!!
    Campfire and camping in the beautiful nature!!! still holiday??When are you starting to work??!!

    Greetings Nico and Wendy

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  3. Hi Laura and Stacy, looks like you both have an awesome time, like the camping adventure.
    How is work going?
    Today at last a nice sunny sunday, we had so much rain every weekend,maybe a motorbike ride next weekend.Love you Hetty

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  4. ahhhh s'mores, you're truly living the American (Canadian?) dream!

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