First Day Off, Sadly

Day five, Sunday

Today was not as exciting as the rest of my week had been. I have weekends off, which is nice, but there's not much to do here. I definitely don't have enough money to go to Trave's every night to eat and chat with the sweet waitress there. So, I just took advantage of my supersaurus sleeping powers and slept until one 1 p.m.

After taking my time, I decided to head to the museum--yes, on my day off--and read. But, not before I stopped at McDonald's to grab an iced coffee. Hey, I mentioned there are NO coffee places in this town! I had no choice, but they seem to make up for it, because the iced coffee's here are strangely better than the iced coffees at the Bellingham McDonald's. I don't know, maybe I'm just desperate and any form of coffee that touches my taste buds shocks me with the taste of pure happiness.

I headed to the museum to do some reading. After I left, I headed to the park in town with my copy of the Dinosaur Heresies. It's a beautiful park with winding trails that are draped by inviting trees with golden sunshine peaking through every chance it can. I plopped myself at the base of one of those trees and began reading. After I did, a huge insect landed on me! I had never seen anything like it before. The next day I asked around, but no one knew what I saw. It was a flying insect with a fat, large, blue-purple metallic body. And it had quite large wings, like a butterfly almost, but with a peacock-ish pattern on them. Towards its head was a huge antennae, about 2.5 inches long. It almost even looked like it was smiling as it sat on my leg. I think I might go there again but with my camera this time. Maybe I can find one again and take a picture.

I proceeded to head to the local Dairy Queen, and I only mention this because I was a little shocked when I arrived. Let me tell you, this was the busiest Dairy Queen I had ever seen! In all my four months working at the Bellingham DQ , I have never seen one so packed with people. This is definitely one of the local hang-outs on a weekend night.

I arrived home, eager to start the next day. Jim Bamburak, from the Manitoba Geological Survery, is coming in from Winnipeg tomorrow for two days. I believe we are going on a hunt for the infamous Gammon Ferruginous. There aren't too many exposures of it in southern Manitoba, be we shall see what the day brings!