Simply orchestrated: Dinosaurs and Avocados

Week 3: Dino Dig!
Sunday we left for the Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in Glendive, Montana. The six hour bus ride was a great time to call the fam and catch up on missed sleep from the camping trip. I was thankful to find chips and salsa at the first gas station we stopped at, that made the trip more enjoyable.

|| Side note: Ever since I've gotten here I have really been craving an avocado! I checked the local grocery store, no luck. Walmart, too hard/way too soft. I've found it is really hard to find avocados in Montana. ||

At the second stop (another gas station) I didn't find an avocado, but I did find a squeeze pack of some suspicious guacamole stuff. It was only 89 cents so I got it. It definitely wasn't the original flavor I was craving.

|| (Kind of a random tangent, yet, in the bus I was overthinking things) This little illustration is a way that God spoke to me. I had such a big craving (in this case for an avocado) but also in life to fulfill his plan. The past year I've been focusing so much on how to fulfill God's plan, and I just wanted a little direction. God used the suspicious guac to remind me not to settle, but instead to keep waiting, even if there seems to be a genuine substitute. ||

Once we finally arrived at the hotel, everyone was disappointed to find out the hot tub was under construction and we wouldn't be able to use it. But not even an hour after arrival, people were already swimming. I got lucky, I only had 2 roommates at the hotel whereas everyone else had 4 to a room. The hotel was nice... It was good that we were on the main level because I cannot say that we were a very quiet group.

Everyday we loaded up on the bus at 8 and then headed over to the museum to start the day. Monday we toured around the museum and went out to the dig site. The first day I found a bone! A dinosaur bone! I have to say, it was really cool. I guess I always knew that dinosaurs were on earth, but holding that bone in my hands really took the reality of dinosaurs to the next level. Everyday, after the dig, we had an hour to rest up and then we had lecture. The lectures consisted of Battle of Worldviews, The Age of the Earth, and others of the same genera (creation). After the lectures, we headed to a little family-owned diner and got some dinner! It was nice to be able to order what we wanted because after the repetitive hotel breakfast and sandwich lunch everyday, it was nice to have variety.
While in Glendive, besides just the digs and lectures, we also read a book called Evolution's Achilles Heels. It was a really good book, but very involved and complex as it was written by 9 PhD scientists.

On the way home (to campus) it rained.

The end.

Here are some of the things I dug out of the ground...