Back to the old MC

Last weekend we visited the 2012 field school at Mule Creek.  Sam and Kelly came over to Albuquerque from their new place in Portales, and we all loaded up in Sam's new truck and headed south for a few nights.

It was great to be back in Mule Creek and to see the new work that this year's crop of students had completed.  We got to spend time hanging out with our friends, sitting with our feet in the creek and drinking beer, and I even got to dig a hole in the ground!  Not much more I could ask for out of a weekend away.  The students this year were totally different than the gang from last year, but still a pretty fun bunch to spend some time with.  The site is still turning up some pretty interesting stuff (ahem, although none as cool as what I dug up there last summer) and hopefully they are now in a better position to answer some of the questions they had about what was going on there way back in the day.

Josh is always a very good sport when we visit archaeological sites, even though I know he is usually pretty bored by it all.  So on the way home from Mule Creek, we stopped by the Very Large Array and allowed Josh's ubergeek to jump out of the truck and run around taking photos of big huge satellite dishes.  He was very excited about it.  [As an aside, I was admittedly underwhelmed/disappointed when I realized that there were not nearly as many dishes at the VLA as had been shown in the movie Contact.  Those jerks added like 100 computer-generated dishes in the background!]