July 3, 2009
Today, I saw a Petrified Forest in Arizona. There were tons of mineral logs EVERYWHERE, and they looked like a rainbow! It was fun.
I also went to the Hubbell Trading Post. It was boring until, guess what, I saw Jack again! At the Trading Post, I got a Hopi Squash Kachina doll. He has a really weird head.
Later, I went to a Meteor Crater, and got a dinosaur egg that grows in water.
July 2, 2009
Today, I went on a jeep tour of Canyon De Chelly in Arizona.
I saw a pictograph of a horse.
It was so fun because I snuck my DS, and I also made a new friend. His name is Jack, and he has a big plush Pokemon collection too. When I get back from vacation, I want to get a Squirtle!
The jeep tour ended with a big splash of rain! I’m starting to see a pattern.
July 1, 2009
I went to Four Corners and I stretched my arms and legs so that I was in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. It was so fun. I felt 
June 30, 2009
Yesterday, I went to the Cliff Palace and Balcony House in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. They are the homes of the ancient Indian pueblo civilizations. The people who lived there must have been really athletic to get around their buildings because they had to climb cliff rocks and ladders to get to their farms from their homes.
At the end of the day, I saw the most beautiful sunset that I have ever seen.
June 25, 2009
Today, I went white water rafting. It was OK. At the end, it rained! And it stung a lot! But, the river was sort of mellow.
June 26, 2009
Today, I went to a ski place, Taos Ski Valley. It was really scary looking down from the top from our chair lift.
June 27, 2009
Today, I went to a rodeo!!!! It was really fun!!!! There was a kid thing where you catch a calf, and I won! I had to pull a ribbon off a bull (calf), and the winners got a dollar. Later, I got a dinosaur egg with that dollar.
Today I went to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Georgia O’Keeffe was a good artist. She drew both abstract and realistic paintings. She liked to draw flowers like the Jimson Weed. She inspired many people to become artists. My favorite Georgia O’Keeffe painting was Mount Fuji.
In Colorado Springs, CO, we stayed in a cabin in the Garden of the Gods Campground. Garden of the Gods Park is a beautiful place with huge red rocks that were formed over millions of years by the earth’s tectonic plates colliding.
I went to Pike’s Peak, a mountain that settlers went to in search of gold in Colorado. I did not like it there at all, at 14,000 feet. My ears were all plugged up. It was really cold at the very tippy top. I threw snow balls at Kayla!
We went to the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. It was a really, really big huge big huge big huge petrified forest. There were really huge redwood tree-mungous tree fossils.
Next door, there is a fossil quarry where I collected leaf and bug fossils. This was fun, and interesting, because you never know what you’re going to get when you crack open a piece of shale.
On another day, I went to a talk about buffaloes. Well, it was very sad. Do you know that people used to go on trains, and they would shoot buffalo through the windows for target practice, and they wouldn’t even collect any meat from them? And, when they did go to collect something from the buffalo, it was just the tongue for fancy restaurants? I think it’s horrible what people did to buffalo. At least now, buffaloes are being preserved.
I also went to a gold mine. The gold vein was a 1,000 feet deep in the ground. In the mine, I didn’t find gold but I found tons of copper, oxygenated copper. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty is made of oxygenated copper? The mining trip was awesome, and at the end I got my own piece of gold ore.
Colorado Springs was a very cool place to visit because there was lots of fun stuff to do!
