When we left Havre I could never guess what was in store this afternoon. We are still driving on rte. 2 when we saw a sign for Great Plains Dinosaur Museum & Field Station in Malta, Mt. Of course we stopped and as we entered the small museum a video was playing. It was about "Roberta" and "Leonardo" the mummy dinosaur recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as the "best Preserved" dinosaurs. The Brachylophosaurs's had skin, internal organs, and was 90% complete. Amazing! It was x-rayed in Houston, TX. Then we found out the fossil had been at the Houston museum this summer. What I photographed was a copy but it was still exciting. They had a great invertebrate fossils displayed from Montana... Ammonites, crabs, and plant fossils.
By the time we left the museum it was lunch time and we stopped at a little local cafe. It was really interesting listening to the locals coming in and chatting. It was a little old fashioned town and reminded me of a place in Pelham N. H. called Brothers.
The drive on the prairie was straight with hills in the distance. Bails of hay covered many areas along with a lot of cattle. We ended up in another little town of Wolf Point.
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