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I write where all can see
I write in an age of technology
I write where you can reply easily
Why, O Why no comments do I see?

I know this is not very good poetry, but I had to say something about there being NO COMMENTS.

Maybe this is better: I implore you to respond to my posts, whether it be in assent, opposition, or interrogation. An author will ne'er decide what to publish unless he is acquainted with the knowledge of what is of general interest to the public.

Lauren

Answer to the Poll

What did we NOT see on our trip? Answer: Armadillo

Arkansas produces a large amount of rice, so we saw a lot of rice paddies.
Pierce saw a black bear while we were passing through northern Texas.
The climate in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas is similar to that of Africa, making it the perfect place to raise antelope for hunting (often these escape and are seen wild).

Lauren Ashley

Our Trip~ CA to MS

Thursday May 27th Noon, We left home and picked Thomas and Pierce up from a Civil War History field trip in Santa Cruz. We passed through miles and miles of farmland during daylight. After dark we car camped in the Mojave Desert. You can probably guess the meaning of Car Camping. Car camping is when Mom and Dad alternate driving until they can go no further, and then stop at a rest stop or at the side of the road and everyone sleeps wherever they can (sitting up, leaning against car-seats, or lying down on top of suitcases).

The Grand Canyon

Mom's hat got blown into a tree 10ft out past the ledge.

Our whole family

Zoe and I

Friday May 28th, For the first time in my life I got to see a real desert, the Mojave desert. It was awfully green. When Pierce and Zoe read about it in their History I expected sand dunes with a few cacti scattered around, while in reality it was flat, parched, and covered in bushes.

Around noon-2pm we got to the Grand Canyon. As you enter the area with gift shop, bathrooms, etc. it looks like the normal entrance to a zoo (just larger). "We finally got to THE GRAND CANYON and we can't find it in the tourist trap!" After a little while we found it. It was amazing. I have read about how the Grand Canyon could only have been formed by the worldwide flood that God saved Noah from, and seeing it completely confirmed this. It seems absurd that people would deny this and try to say that it formed by the little trickle of water in the bottom of the canyon after millions and millions of years. I have heard it said that it takes more faith to be an atheist and believe in theories made up by man, than it does to believe in God's simple truth told in the Bible.

Meteor Crater

Very Windy

After driving several more hours we got to see Meteor Crater. (Another big hole in the ground!) All around the crater there were rings of hills formed when the meteor hit. Huge gusts of wind came up the sloped sides, nearly blowing me over. In this picture we were trying to smile while keeping ourselves upright. The movie shown in the museum tried to explain the formation of Meteor Crater from the Big Bang and evolution over millions and millions of years, but one major point was missed. Who made the original rocks and life forms? Even if the Big Bang did happen, someone had to have made the rock, space, stars, etc. Something had to initiate the explosion. More and more questions arise.

Saturday May 29th, We drove through endless table land. It was dry and hot, but the rocks were beautiful, and house-sized boulders balanced precariously near the edge of a mesa on a rock the size of a soccer ball showed the force of water that carved out the Grand Canyon. Everyone wanted to know what Texas was like. We were counting down the minutes until we entered TX. We thought that we were near the border, and after stopping to let a 100 car train pass we checked the GPS. It showed that we were on the border. The train kept coming and coming as if it was a curtain being drawn extremely slowly. We saw the last car pass and then there was just a tiny little sign beside the tiny little road winding on and on just as it had been doing for miles. Very anticlimactic! This picture makes it look a lot better:

One patch of blue sky appeared just in time.

Sunday May 30th 2am "...it takes 8 hours to drive from here to Spring, and it is 8 1/2 hours until church starts. We can't make it in time" So we got a hotel room and found a church in town.

Noon, After church we found a restaurant and ate fried chicken, fried fish, fried cornbread, fried okra, and sweet iced tea. We felt sick. In the late afternoon we found Whole Foods and got sushi and vegetable smoothies for supper (which made us feel better immediately).

Monday May 31st, We looked at a couple properties in Texas to possibly buy (neither of them ended up working). Drive...drive...drive...

Tuesday June 1st, Finally at Grandpa & Grandma's house!!

Lauren Ashley

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Lauren Ashley

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Skirt Giveaway

One of the blogs which I follow is Feminine Farmgirl, written by a girl living on a small farm with her 7 siblings (what my family is hoping to do). Right now her mother is having a giveaway of a skirt pattern and fabric which ends tomorrow. To enter go to The Regan Family Farm Blog or click on the link on my sidebar.

Lauren Ashley