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Fier’s Class Reaches Zion National Park

Our first stop was Zion National Park. We took interstate 15 north and east to interstate 70 into Grand Junction, Colorado. Zion was wonderful .We climbed and hiked. The rocks were rough to climb. We had little accidents while hiking, for example Kylie tripped and scraped her knee good thing we had a first aid kit. After that we were really hungry, so we went to Home Town Buffet. Keene ate 3 chicken wings and fries. Kylie ate the same, and Karin did too. Zion was a wonderful place to visit.

Our second trip was to Bryce Canyon. Bryce was a beautiful canyon. We saw a lot of colorful rocks. Mr.Fiers took us on a tour; the canyon was shaped like a horseshoe. We all stopped to eat a snack. After the snack Keene spotted a deer with her baby and she took a picture. Kylie saw several colorful birds and wanted one. But Karin said NO!! While we were walking back to the car Karin started singing Keene and Kylie sang along. We couldn’t wait to get to Mesa Verde.

We just got to Mesa Verde National Park. First we saw the Cliff dwellings. After we saw some animals and Mr. Fiers liked the turkey vulture. Then we had lunch at Sizzle. Then Keene rented a horse for Kylie, Karin, and herself. At the end Kylie bought the horse Spottier Dottie .The last stop was two Grand Junction, Colorado.

Grand Junction, Colorado was a wonderful and beautiful place also. There were fruit growing. We

found grapes and cherries. Then we slept at the Grand Junction Super 8.

Nicholson Trekking through Salt Lake City!

We awakened very early the next morning, as we had a long trek across the state of Nevada into Salt Lake City, Utah. After a quick breakfast we felt refreshed and ready to resume our journey. We started East on the I-80. The route was long and exhausting, but we got to see some pretty awesome sights along the way. We passed throught the city of Winnemucca, the Golunda Summit which is at an elevation of 5,1854 ft., went through Emigrant Pass and finally arrived in the city of Elko, population14,700, elevation at 5,060 ft. Everyone seemed a bit restless, and we decided to stop for lunch. We decided to eat at the 19th Hole Restaurant on Fairway Boulevard. Elko appeared to be the center of Nevada’s Cattle country. It is also famous for its famous Cowboy Poetry Gatherings and beautiful countryside, with its miles of trails and back-country lakes that offer fishing, hunting and boating. The temperature was a cool 55 degrees and the sky was clear as we drove out of the city. We made our way on the I-80, enjoying the desert views and finally reached Salt Lake City after 8 hours of driving time and covering 546 miles.

Salt Lake City, state capitol, the home of the Mormons and the famous Great Salt Lake, was a sight of our travel weary eyes. The Great Salt Lake is the saltiest body of water on earth, where everything floats. The lake is so large that it actually has an island in it named Angel Island. The only life forms found in the lake are blue-algae and brine shrimp. The state of Utah was founded by, Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormons in 1847 and was admitted into statehood in 1846, after much debate over its religion and cultural lifestyle. We decided to have some fun at the Lagoon Amusement Park, with stagecoach rides, two music theaters, a wild animal area, campgrounds and picnic areas. It goes without saying that the entire class enjoyed the water slides and swimming at Lagoon Beach and a beautiful view of the river. Since the temperature was approximately 61 degrees, we arrived at our hotel wet and a bit chilled. All that energy we spent at the park made us extremely hungry and so we headed to the nearest restaurant for dinner. After dinner, we trailed off to bed with great anticipation for the next leg of our journey!

Gledhill says goodnight from Salt Lake City!

Cushing’s Class Arrives in Yellowstone: A Marvel of Nature

We picked up from Day 2 and left from Idaho Falls. From there, we took the highway 120 and got to Mammoth Hot springs. We chose this route because we all wanted to see the marvels of Yellowstone National Park, which was very close to Mammoth Hot Springs.

Yellowstone was a beautiful place, filled with geysers and other tourist attractions. It was also the first national park. Congress had established it in 1872, and Theodore Roosevelt founded it and created the Yellowstone Act so that it would not be harmed. Also, Yellowstone is about two-thirds as large as Connecticut

For some fun, we hiked the hills and mountains and saw the waterfalls that Yellowstone had to offer. There was a lot of wildlife to see and we also saw Old Faithful 1 and Old Faithful 3 When the water sprayed out, we all were amazed to see such wonder explode from holes in the ground. We also enjoyed the hiking part of the trip. It was fun to hike up the same hills and mountains that Lewis and Clark did. It was great fun and we all enjoyed it.

When we saw the wildlife part, we were able to pet some of the animals. There were a lot of wildflowers along the ground of the park. We had a chance to see real bison, deer, and other things that were really cool. The trees were all very green and tall and they had a guide that took you through parts of the woods.

Afterwards, we left the animal part of Yellowstone, to the very interesting souvenir shop. We found a lot of stuff we wanted and were able to buy. We all got what we really wanted and then left to go get something to eat in a restaurant inside the park.

We left beautiful Yellowstone tired from all the walking and climbing. We headed onto the highway 20 which took us to our next destination, Thermopolis to stay and eat some more. We stayed at the nearby Holiday Inn, where we stayed a few hours and tried to contain ourselves since pretty soon we would be going to another exciting place.

An hour later we got on the bus and went south towards Riverton by going on the Interstate 14. Then we stopped by a Burger King and ate so that we wouldn’t be hungry when we got to our destination.

Our destination was the Riverton Museum. We chose to go there because we all wanted to know a little bit about the Old West. When we arrived we found that there was no admission fee, and that we could see some of the clothes and other things that the actual cowboys used.

The Riverton Museum also had cool display of the way that the people of the 20th century lived and what the stores that they were relied on were like. They had displays of the schools, the drugstores, the dentist’s office, the church, the general store, beauty salon, and the post office, which they probably relied on the most. We all contrasted the ways that the places were different from the ways that they are now when the tour was over.

When we left the Riverton Museum, we got back on the bus and calculated that from Idaho Falls to Riverton was 426.02 miles, and that the elevation of Riverton is 4956’. Using the Internet, we were able to find the population, and it was 9,200. Riverton we concluded is a very small town. And the radio told us that the weather was 54 degrees. We went through northeast Idaho and the southern part of Wyoming using a map to help us.

We ended that day by staying in the same Holiday Inn and slept happily. We all dreamed about the fun that we had that day.

Road Rally 2003

Mr. Hendershot Room 5

Day 3

Today we begin our journey from Great Falls, Montana. The elevation is 3,624. The temperature is 27 degrees Fahrenheit, the high will be about 50 degrees Fahrenheit and the low will be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The Dew point is 21 degrees Fahrenheit (-6 degrees Celsius). The population of Great Falls is 56,690. The Mileage for today is 349 miles. The total mileage so far has been 1,149 miles. The state we went through today was Montana. An interesting fact we learned is that in Montana there are many deserts and highlands.

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Gledhill Meets Bison

Car 3 – Mrs. Brown

Today is the third day of our long journey to Washington, D. C . The temperature is in the high 50’s. The population in Salt Lake City is 50,000 and the elevation is 4,327 feet above sea level.

We woke up and were really hungry so we went to Denny’s in downtown Salt Lake City for a Grand Slam breakfast. Since it was feeling chilly outside we took our sweaters. We got on Highway 80 and drove to Rock Springs. We got off the highway and went to Flaming Gorge National Rec. Area. Where we went rock climbing. We had lunch then ran around for a while. It was then back on Highway 80.We passed Rocky Mountains. It was a beautiful mountain range. We were so lucky because a herd of bison were grazing very close to the road. We kept driving until we reached Cheyenne the capital of Wyoming. We went directing to the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum because we wanted to spend time there before it closed. Finally we reached a hotel. Some us went to bed but others watched TV for a while.

We went this way because we wanted to pass through Rocky Mountains and Salt Lake City.

Turner Elementary school visit the Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum "Milestones of Flight" gallery exhibits some of the major "firsts" in aviation and space history. These are the machines that made the dream of flight possible. From the Wright Brother's Wright 1903 Flyer, to the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis", to the Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" that carried the first men to walk on the Moon.

The Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the Moon and back on July 16-24, 1969. This mission culminated in the first human steps on another world.

The Apollo 11 spacecraft had three parts: the Command Module, the Service Module, and the Lunar Module "Eagle". While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in "Eagle", Michael Collins remained alone in "Columbia". For 28 hours he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface. After reclaiming Armstrong and Aldrin from the ascent stage of the Lunar Module, "Columbia" was the only part of the spacecraft to return to Earth.

The blunt-end design for the Command Module was chosen to build upon experience gained with the similarly shaped Mercury and Gemini spacecraft. The spacecraft reentered the atmosphere with its protective heat shield facing forward. Layers of special "ablative" material on the shield were purposely allowed to burn away during reentry to help dissipate the extremely high temperatures caused by atmospheric friction

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