Fly me to the moon...

This was a fun day.  I got up early for a run around the town (almost literally) of Laramie.  The town is at ~7200 ft above sea level, but I didn't really notice a difference.  The town is also rather small with less than 30,000 people, which is the 3rd or 4th largest in Wyoming.  I wanted to see a little more of the town and campus so I did a loop around campus.  I was thinking of heading back at that point, but I noticed the LDS church building up on a hill a little further away and decided to check it out.  Then I headed out towards the Laramie river because I had heard there was a trail along it.  Sure enough there was a nice paved river trail along it.  It was cool running along the river with the sunrise.  I took the trail for awhile and then headed back to the hotel.

The rest of the day was spent on a geology field trip with the other 4 prospective students, one current grad student and two professors.  We had breakfast and then headed out towards Rawlins for lunch.  After lunch we went back east to Sinclair, home of the "most modern oil refinery in the world," and took a road out into the desert towards Seminoe state park.  We stopped along the way at various points along the Platte river and looked at rocks.  I learned a few things and was able to follow it somewhat, but got a little lost in all of the terminology.  The best part was climbing down an icy, rocky hillside to see some fossilized pterodactyl tracks.