Week 2 of dino camp

Ok so for week two I was nicely medicated, i went to the doctor on my day off...Not a fun thing to do.  But I got on some meds to help my ear infection go away.  We waited around the science center again at school for the new peoples to show up.  Again there were a couple returnees but this week we had a larger group of new people.  All the new people were great and most were very enthusiastic and had no problem putting up with daily changes of what we were going to do/go.  We only worked on the main egg site one day, just to see what was going on there and what was coming out.  A really cool crushed egg was found, the rock was split through the middle of it so you could follow the egg all the way around.  Most eggs we find are not like that..Just lines of broken egg, which is fun to find also but not as exciting as a whole one. 
what's interesting about working with dino eggs, is that it's the crushed eggs that you want to find, not the nice round eggs that you see in museums.  It has been found that embryo bones are found in the crushed eggs and not the whole round ones.  What the thinking there is that if the egg is not crushed then inside the egg is a very acidic micro-environment which would then probably eat away at the bones.  But when the egg is crushed, all that fluid leaves, which then improves the chances of the embryonic bones to be preserved.  Pretty neat huh?
The rest of the week was spent traveling to various sites and surface collecting to see what had eroded out during the winter and to see what sites needed collecting/excavating permits for next summer. 
Camp life was a lot more fun this week because everyone was not doped up on cold/allergy meds like they were the previous week.  So we all stayed up later, had terrific bonfires and drank awhole bunch.  unfortunately the rattlesnakes also refused to leave us along.  We had two in camp that week.  One was while we were eating dinner, it was right next to one of the picnic tables (thankfully not the one i was sitting at), and the second was right next to the showers, both were being occupied at the moment so it was a very tense few minutes there while they were freaking out in the showers waiting for someone to come down and kill the snake. 
Oh and yes Rayna, we sleep on the ground.  Not like in the open air..Just you and the stars but in tents.  What was kinda frightening though was that many tents come with a vestibule which is a part of the rain fly that extends over the door, making a little entry way into the tent.  That would have been a perfect place for a snake to be hanging out in, so when ever I approached my tent i would kick the rain fly all around to make sure there were no surprises inside.
Of course on the last research day, we were scouting around a site when one of the staff members, Austin, found a turtle sticking out of a butte wall.  So we didn't have an excavation permit for that site, so we sadly had to leave it there.  Vickie was going to go back and plaster up the  side of it, to prevent any more deteriation so hopefully we'll beable to get back to it next summer with a permit.
The last two night for our "Herd" (Justin, I, Leah, Alyssa and new member Austin) was pretty big drinking nights.  We just had to finish up everything we bought before the end of camp, so we all sat around the fire and drank until either the bugs or the cold got to us. 
In the end, this was a fabulous vacation..no one was totally obnoxious, the weather was actually descent for once, and we found some pretty cool stuff. 
I only have a few pics left in my last point-and-shoot camera, I'll get it on CD and get a few of them on here that best illustrate life at dino camp.