Saturday, April 5, 2008

Petrified Forest National Park

We spent the whole day on Wednesday at Petrified Forest National Park. Kyle convinced me he needed to take this picture with me in it because I am never in the pictures. I tried to explain the reason for that, but he wouldn't listen.
We took a mile hike through a huge field full of petrified wood. The wood is so pretty when it turns to rock.
This is a huge tree that is petrified. You can barely see the rest of the family sitting on it in the middle.
On a different hike we went close to what they call newspaper rock. They call it this because of all the petroglyphs that were left by the ancient people. The kids really like to look at these pictures.
The older boys filled out a booklet and took an oath to become junior park rangers. They love to get a badge and be all official. They did this at the Grand Canyon too. Overall this was a fun park to visit and spend time together as a family.

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