state track... just another vacation!!

State track was held in Casper, which is about 250 miles away.. which means it was more or less a vacation for us. IT started Thursday and went through Saturday. We were done every night (except Saturday) by about 4, so we had plenty of time to explore a new area to us. We have been hosting "flat emily", a paper doll version of one of my friends god child or at least someone she is very close to. It's a learning project, where she goes all over and gets to see the pics that her paper version is in. ...so I asked Randal if we couldn't do Oregon Trail stuff, so she would benefit from that. The first night we headed out looking for Independence Rock, but not really sure exactly where we were supposed to be going.. instead we found Ayers Natural Bridge.. still very cool!! We saw ruts from teh trail, so it was a really nice trip.
The next day we found independence rock, devils gate, martins cove, and split rock.. it was an awesome trip. I was a lil sad that erosion has taken its toll on the rock.. (Independence Rock is where the wagon trail people carved their names). People are idiots and have decided they should be able to do the same in modern times.
Saturday lasted til almost 6. We then went to Cass and Lyndon's place for a cook out. Cass was one of Randals debate students that he coached. We had a great time. They have a daughter a month younger than Sierra. It was nice meeting them in person finally. It sounds like we will be getting to Casper a couple times a year, and Cass comes out our way a couple times a year too, so that will be fun.
We only were able to stay about an hour because of the long drive home.
One thing to note about Casper.. it holds 1/3 of the worlds pronghorn population ..I forget what the mileage is.. but its not much.. like within 20 miles of casper. On the way to Casper I counted over 400 pronghorns. The way home I didn't really try, but we saw a ton of them. there are half a million pronghorn... and they all call wyoming home.
We got home late, and Sierra was wired when we got home because she slept in the car so much. ..I got to bed about 2:30... and was up by 8 getting ready for my cousins visit.