Chatterbox: Down to Earth

Vacations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where have people gone on vacations, lately, or for Kimberly, what are you doing right now??  If you don't go on vacations that often, where have you been in your state that is fun? Where would you want to go to, if you could go anywhere in the entire world (or even beyond!!!)??

I've been on lots of trips, but I'll just tell you the ones I've done lately.  In the summer of 2007, I drove to Emerald Isle, North Carolina.  Has anybuggy been there?  It's a wonderful beach town on a small isle.  We rented a beachhouse with my cousins (they're all at least a junior in highschool or above) and their families.  The house was right on the beach. :) Ahhh... So heavenly!

That Thanksgiving, we drove back to North Carolina, but instead, we went to see family in Hicktown. (For some reason, I love hicktowns!) It's sort of a tradition in my family, to spend Thanksgiving together, but sadly, we can't do it this year... :(

This March, we drove to Florida (we used to live there).  We didn't do the usual Disney stuff like we did before, but we did stay at a Disney hotel, Disney Port Orleans, and we road a boat from our hotel to the Disney Marketplace, and we went to the Disney Animal Kingdom.  We went to some other zoos and did a bunch of fun stuff, including seeing Switchfoot in concert!!!

This July, we went flew to Denver, did lots of cool stuff there, such as go to the zoo (it's the best I've ever been to!!), visit local organizations (my dad is currently looking for job), and go to this amazing park with amazing rocks in amazing forms called Garden of the Gods.  We saw the first coyote I had ever seen, there.  Then we drove up through lots of other states and visited lots of other state parks...  It was fun, though!  TNO, we spent a pretty big chunk of time in Wyoming!  Is Yellowstone in your state, because that would mean we spent a really long time there!?  In South Dakota, we saw Mount Rushmore.  That was pretty amazing.  We also went to Custer State Park, which I thought would be boring, but I liked it more than Yellowstone.  It was the first place I had ever seen a bison in the wild.  Lots of bison.  Over three thousand bison all standing in the middle of the road.  Baby bison! :)  All of the animals that I've never seen in Maine that we saw in the wild, there, were: coyotes, moose (yes, we don't see them in Maine!), bison, beavers, pikas, ground squirrels, the black-footed ferret (yes, the one that was once thought to be extinct!), yellow-bellied marmots, prarie dogs (they are SO cute, but I'll tell you a story about them in minute...), golden eagles, snakes, mule deer, wild horses, wild donkeys, badgers, and a ton more, but I can't remember them.  I seemed too have made a list, but I can't find it either...  About the prarie dogs: when prarie dogs are scared, they stand up and start squeaking. :)  One time we saw them doing it, and we happened to see a badger that was trying to catch them.  We scared it away before it could. :) Later, we saw them doing it again.  A coyote was laying down in front of one of their holes, waiting for one unlucky victim to come up.  Unfortunatly for him, a few seconds later, a golden eagle swept down and grabbed a cute, innocent, little, baby prarie dog.  My mom and I screamed and told my dad to start the car.  He was much happier staying where we were and watching the village of rodents squeak themselves to death. :( 

We kept track of all of the licence plates we saw on that trip.  We got everything except for Deleware, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.  For Canada, we got Quebec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and Nova Scotia.  For Mexico (this was the first time I had ever seen a Mexican licence plate in person!!), we got Sonora. 

So those are the trips I've been on withen a few years.  Where have you been??