Back safe and sound

So I'm back in wonderful Fargo, ND....sound sarcastic? Yeah just kinda.  I had a great time in Montana so I'll try to fill you all in.
Week 1:
Justin and I arrived to Havre, MT three days early to help with the set up of camp.  Our friend Alyssa or "Steggy" was already there.  So for three days the three of us helped Vickie and her husband Greg get ready for and set up camp.  Our other friend Leah arrived on Thursday, the day before camp started.  Camp started Friday, with the four of us waiting at the school, waiting for all the campers to arrive.  Everyone were returnees except two.  The two new people Elaine and Glen were cool, they both came by themselves and like everyone else were fasinated with dinosaurs.  Elaine had been on other digs, mostly archeology digs including a ten day tour of the Egyptian pyramids. 
Well there is also another new person, Stephen, Vickies cousin, brought his niece Tristany or Wiz along.  Wiz is 11 and her nickname is dead on.  Not like a braty know it all, but a very wise little girl.  It was amazing just to listen to her talk.  If only i could describe her better.  And she was dynamite at finding fossils, not big ones, but tiny teeth and bones.  Her family owns a ranch in southern Montana, and it's on the Hell Creek formation which is known for its fabulous dinosaurs like T.rex, Triceratops and Stegosaurus.  So lets just say that she's had lots of practice.
The first day of camp was just setting up tents and getting everyone adjusted to camp life.  The second day was getting people to understand the local geology of the area, and getting them adjusted to looking for fossils.  We took them on a mini-hike around the buttes right around camp and set them loose in the fossiliferous areas.  What was really cool about this was that we found some plant fossils.  For some reason this area did not preserve plants well.  What we found was a metasequoia branch.  Pretty cool stuff.
While on our way back into camp, Leah, Alyssa and I were walking though some tents and someone shouted out "Rattle Snake!"  We had all walked right by it.  Very scary and very dangerous.  Camp policy is that if there is a snake in camp we have to kill it.  Rattlesnakes are very territorial and so if we just shoed it out then it would just come back.  So Stephen took off it's head with a shovel, and I think Glen got the rattle. 
The rest of the week flew by, with the exception of me getting sick.  Yes in the middle of summer, while camping I get a cold and an ear infection.  Ugh those last couple days of camp were pretty hazy, I was so out of it I could barely concentrate on fossil collecting.  So the last half of the 1st week was pretty crappy, but everyone had a good time, not too many good finds.  We were at one site just seeing what was coming out of ground, we think found a piece of skull of something but it was pretty fragmented so we just covered it up and hoped it will be back there next year when Vickie can get an excavation permit. 
We got one night off inbetween the two weeks.  So the four of us shared a room at the best western, which was where I posted last time.
Well I'm tired of typing already so perhaps tomorrow I'll continue on.