New Mexico

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I've got Landen in the shower but not for a shower(it's a great place for timeout in this RV) and doubles as a great closet to put our vacuum and other things... Farrah and Finley are napping and the older ones are working on their Haiku poems.

Yesterday, I drove the two older kids to Pick Up Sticks a Chinese restaurant. I dropped them off in front while I waited in the car with the younger 3. They went in and ask if they could have chopsticks to glue to their Haiku poems. I love that they are so independent and not afraid of talking to older people. They ended up talking to the manager and telling them they were homeschooled and this is for a school project. That's a learning lesson in itself.

They are all busy working on those and while I have a little "free time" I thought I would share some pictures about our stop in New Mexico about two weeks ago.

Yummy Mexican food, in old town Albuquerque, NM.
They brought us all the Sopaipillas ( a puffed-up fried bread served with honey) we wanted. I'm still trying to run off the extra weight I've gained from that day!

Ah, New Mexico, how do I love thee?

Let me count the ways: The sunshine; the dry, light air; the cultural diversity; and, oh yes,

THE CHILE!

On the map Austin found The Wildlife West right off highway 40. By the time we got there they were closed, but the owner was there and let us walk around for about an hour. He saw how interested Austin was in the animals he couldn't turn him away. It started snowing so the little ones and I went back to the RV to get warm.

The zoo has many opportunities for students to learn. It's the only zoo in the United States that is built by teenagers. They also use recycled material.





The next day we headed to the Petroglyph National Monument.

We saw a lot of wildlife and hiked the trails learning about the people that traveled the Rio Grande valley long ago.


The kids wrote about what they thought each Petroglyph meant and then answered some other questions the Ranger had for them. After they completed their Ranger packet and compared AIG's brochures with the their evolution literature they got yet another patch to add to their road jackets!

I, Austin, Faith and Landen do not believe that the West Mesa, was created a million years ago when lava flowed from a large crack in the Earth's crust.......

I highly recommend these brochures if you take your family to famous national parks or geological features. Or even if you don't, you and your family can learn a lot from them! Being on this trip has showed me how much evolution is pushed on us so much everywhere we go. It's pushed on us like it's a fact and it's not a fact it is simply a theory! I'm tired of all of the evolutionary/millions-of-years explanations we get from the official tour guides. I want to be able to know the truth and have my kids know and debate the truth! It might cost them a badge but they will get an extra jewel in their crown right? ha! These have helped us so much on our trip. They clearly show that real science confirms the biblical account of creation and a global Flood. It goes to show the Bible can be trusted, even when it comes to geology!



We went rock climbing and saw Arizona from New Mexico.....




no ER visits were included in the making of these photos :)