Day 12 – Wednesday
When we woke up we saw what the City of Rocks looked like. It looked like a city made of volcanic rocks. The rocks were skinny tall pillars that looked like buildings and the spaces between them looked like narrow roads. These rocks were white, silver and gray and they had holes from the size of a spec to the size of a baseball all over them. Joshua Tree’s rocks were different in that they were orange and they did not have holes in them. My whole family went and played on the rocks. We were climbing around and pretending they were our houses. My brother Steen found one he called his Robot spaceship.
A little bit after that we went to the visitor’s center and looked at and touched a hands on display of stuff that you can find in City of Rocks. One of them was two coyote gourds, some snake skin, and barrel cactus spines. My mom tricked us into touching petrified animal scat. I like to touch hands on displays. Then we watched a ten minute movie about the area. It said that a volcano erupted 35 million years ago and formed these volcanic rocks. The eruption was 1,000 times bigger than the one at Mount Saint Helen’s and it lasted from months to years. There are only six other places in the world with rocks like these. I wish I could go back to City of Rocks.
We then drove a couple of hours to White Sands, New Mexico. We started off at the visitor’s center where looked at some rocks, bought some books, and watched a seventeen minute movie about White Sands. White Sands looks like Tatoine from Star Wars except the sand is all white. It looks like it just snowed a lot. Everything is white except for a few plants on the edges. Most of the animals are white to camouflage themselves. It is miles and miles of white sand dunes. It didn’t look like the desert since it was all snow colored. It looked like huge piles of snow.
My family went and played all over the dunes. Another family gave us a sledding saucer to use on the dunes. We rode down the hills with the saucer until we had to go. You could slide standing up or sitting down. White Sands was my favorite place other than Disneyland. If you come to southern New Mexico you should come to White Sands National Monument.
A little bit after that we went to the visitor’s center and looked at and touched a hands on display of stuff that you can find in City of Rocks. One of them was two coyote gourds, some snake skin, and barrel cactus spines. My mom tricked us into touching petrified animal scat. I like to touch hands on displays. Then we watched a ten minute movie about the area. It said that a volcano erupted 35 million years ago and formed these volcanic rocks. The eruption was 1,000 times bigger than the one at Mount Saint Helen’s and it lasted from months to years. There are only six other places in the world with rocks like these. I wish I could go back to City of Rocks.
We then drove a couple of hours to White Sands, New Mexico. We started off at the visitor’s center where looked at some rocks, bought some books, and watched a seventeen minute movie about White Sands. White Sands looks like Tatoine from Star Wars except the sand is all white. It looks like it just snowed a lot. Everything is white except for a few plants on the edges. Most of the animals are white to camouflage themselves. It is miles and miles of white sand dunes. It didn’t look like the desert since it was all snow colored. It looked like huge piles of snow.
My family went and played all over the dunes. Another family gave us a sledding saucer to use on the dunes. We rode down the hills with the saucer until we had to go. You could slide standing up or sitting down. White Sands was my favorite place other than Disneyland. If you come to southern New Mexico you should come to White Sands National Monument.
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