Day 6 - Emily Wilburn

Our morning began with a late breakfast consisting of biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit, bacon, and orange juice. Today we scheduled a day off from digging that way we would have an entire day to explore the town and take a hike. After breakfast, we began our hike through the land behind the ranch we are staying at. We took the van about half a mile out, hopped out, and began our walk through a small canyon. It was such a beautiful hike and a great way to spend our time away from the dig site. It was pretty muddy and I can definitely say I broke in my new boots. While walking we found prints from turkey, wild boars, raccoon, and bobcats. Once returning from our hike we headed out again to Dairy Queen! We each ordered a basket of chicken tenders and a Blizzard and left pretty full. Next, we went to an abandoned church that we heard about from Mr. David Temple (he visits it every time he comes up to Seymour). Brandon took some amazing footage around the church on his drone that we will hopefully be able to post on our blog at a later date once its finished being edited! We then headed back to the ranch to eat an early dinner. I think I speak for us all when I say we were extremely unprepared for this meal. Each steak was the size of my head and there was probably enough of it to feed our school of 80. Not a single person was able to finish their plate. I can assure every parent reading this that we will not be returning home hungry. After dinner we headed to Seymour's city hall building where they have a small theatre inside. Every Friday and Saturday they have a free showing. Tonight it was the second Fantastic Beasts movie. As it turned out we arrived an hour late thinking the show began at 7 instead of 6 - we were all thoroughly confused the entire time. However, from what little of the movie we saw it was still pretty good. We're now on our way outside to do some stargazing!