The Past Month

12/7/08-1/20/09

• Everglades
• Junior Ranger Program
• alligators vs crocs
• swimming with the manatees
• christmas trees with Kati and Vern (the LOUD Family)
  
• meeting Bryce and Steve
• Mom's to wrap presents
• Seth, Becky's and Tom's for Christmas, saw Grampa Bill & Granny Kay, Aunt Sandy
  
• saw Santa Clause
• Yankee Candle - Abby made candles and learned beeswax and bayberry candle making
• hike to Bash Bish Falls
• Christmas in Virginia with Mema
• Appomattax National Park - Civil War
• Ice skating for Abby's Birthday
• Camper to shop
• Luray Caverns - caves, stalagtights, stalagmights
• Nashville, TN - Country music hall of fame, learned about country music in the old days when Gommy was first born; Car Museum - saw lots of prototype cars - swam underwater, flying car, 3 wheeled cars, some tiny tiny cars (only 350lbs), car with engines on both sides, LARC a big huge vehicle used by the Navy, could go in water and on land, tires were 9' feet tall; car that made into a bed
• Oklahoma - saw a buffalo ranch, Daddy ate buffalo burgers
• Amarillo Texas - Cadillac Ranch - spray painted old cadillacs that were stuck nose first into the ground!
• Drove on Rt. 66 thru Glenrio, NM, an old ghost town, San Jon, to Tucamacari (the town said to most resemble Radiator Springs in the movie cars). We saw old houses, cars, hotels, restaurants, we even saw Mater, Lightening McQueen, the Conoco gas station and the garage from Cars
• Arizona - we went to the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert National Park. We saw rabbits in the Painted Desert. The petrified wood happened along time ago when the area was underwater and the volcanic ash interacted water soaked wood and turned the wood into Quartz rock. The colors in the wood are from different minerals which soaked into the wood during the petrification process.
• Meteor Crater, AZ - 50,000 years ago a meteor about 150' hit the Earth and caused a big hole in the ground. The meteor was made out of mostly iron and was very very heavy
• Flagstaff to Tuscan to Quartzsite, AZ - Beautiful snowy mountain ranges to cactus and desert plants