Drive to Meeteetse and Thermopolis

It was a perfect day to take a drive yesterday. We have been wanting to drive to Meeteetse and Thermopolis so yesterday was the day. Meeteetse was kind of a disapointment. There wasn't much to see in this small town of about 600 people so we didn't spend a lot of time there. We traveled another 50 miles to Thermopolis to see the Wyoming Dinosaur Center and visit the town that has a population of around 3,000:

The Dinosaur Center was at the east end of town and we found it tucked away on a hillside, and it  looked like a warehouse from the front:

Once inside, we paid our $11 admission fee and walked around a self guided set of displays of all kinds of fossils and examples of prehistoric animals leading up to the Dinosaur Age. Then, you enter the center of the displays and the large models of dinosaurs that were placed around a huge cast model of a Supersaurus - center photo - the largest of all the dinosaurs that was 106 feet long:

Bones for this cast model were actually discovered at the local dig site, which was a short drive from the Center. People were in a room at the Center, with surrounding viewing glass, that were actually cleaning off the bones that had been discovered recently. It's hard to imagine that these dinosaurs ruled the world for 160 million years before they became extinct 70 million years ago.

We returned home about 5:30 and just relaxed the rest of the day. We were hoping that there would be an opening in one of the rafting trips today, but we haven't heard anything from Karen who was going to call for all of us. We are assuming there were none, so we will do something else today. Our plan so far is to go to the Dan Miller Show tonight at 8 PM in town. Until tomorrow...