Adventures in the Rockies

Tonight is Christopher...

Today we started early in the morning and we set off to Rocky Mountain National Park. We drove into the park about...I'd say 9:00. We drove through the park about 20 or 30 minutes and saw a moose and then we got out an overlook to see the beautiful mountains covered in snow. While we were there we saw a very small golden Wyoming squirrel. Then we drove to a path that went by the Colorado River and when we felt the water it was really, really cold. It was a long walk and we saw birds and a squirrel run across in front of us. When we were going back to the car we saw a female elk eating grass. When we got back to the car we had lunch and drove through the rest of the park. On the way we stopped at a visitor center in the tundra and got our ranger badges and felt the snow. This road was the highest one in any of the national parks. When we went back on we saw a yellow bellied marrmont and a lake that was in the side of the mountain. We left the park we went through Estes and saw another lake. There were lots of big canyons. We ate dinner in Cheyenne and had really good food. Then we found out there were no rooms and we had to go back to Colorado to find a room. At this very moment I am eating chocolate chip cookies and blogging. When I'm done I have to go to bed in a big storm. Tomorrow we are going to see Guernsey to see the wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail and Fort Laramie and Mt. Rushmore. We think we are going to Mt. Rushmore at night to see it lit up.

The answer to yesterdays trivia question is a pound of feathers. They used different measurements for gold and 12 ounces of gold was equal to 1 pound of feathers.