We went for a drive after church on Sunday to the ATK plant 20 miles west of Corinne.They have a cool display of the different rockets and motors that they make there. ATK makes the primary rockets that are used to launch the Discovery shuttles (or something like that). The kids really liked to play in the hollowed out body of a rocket they had on display but were a little disappointed when Matt finally let them know that we weren't going to be taking one of them for a test drive.
After the ATK display we drove out further to a see this thing called Spiral Jetty. Some guy named Robert Smithson built this "sculpture" using black basalt rocks and earth from the site. It is a coil 1500 feet long and 15 feet wide that stretches out counterclockwise into the salt lake. Pretty neat, not sure why he did it though... I guess when the water is a little higher it looks cooler, something to do with the water turning different colors in the spiral. The water was so low that it was nothing more the a nice smooth sheet of very salty sand (or maybe it was just salt). To insure a good nights sleep, Matt organized several foot races for the boys around the spiral. As we walked back up to the truck we saw several lizards and probably didn't see hundreds of them as they tend to blend into the rocks.
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