Really Cool Thing #989: Trying to be cool like your older brother's friends (or trying to join USoSL)

You know how when you were little and you always wanted to be like your big brother and his friends? Well I'm not sure that ever goes away, except for the big brother part, I'm way cooler than him now. My brother's friend Charlotte started an online quest to collect pictures of stone lions (check it out here) and I decided to be cool like her and seek out stone lions in Vernal. It turned out to be more challenging than I thought.

First I found this guy just around the corner. It wasn't a stone lion, but it was a large wooden bear (and an eagle). I knew I was on the path.


Then, down the road I spotted in the distance two stone statues and my hopes were raised! Could it be that I completed my task so soon? But alas, they were stone, but not lions.


I thought for a while that my quest was in vain. I kept my eyes open, always scouting for that new discovery. We took the boys to Lagoon amusement park this summer and I had a glimmer of hope. We found this guy and finally I had the right species, but now the material was all wrong! What was I to do?

Then on my way to Salt Lake for a conference I spied something along highway 40 at 65 MPH. Could it be? Yes! I finally found my target! But wait! Toto, I don't think we're in Vernal anymore. Sadly, as beautiful as these two guys are, they are in Fort Duchesne. My goal was to find stone lions in Vernal. My quest continued.




And then, a few days ago on a whim I took a strange route to work and what should appear before my eyes?

VICTORY!!!!
Two beautiful examples of Panthero leo! Quest complete!

Finally, maybe I have a chance at being as cool as Charlotte.