Road Trip

This weekend, we drove a long way to some mountains somewhere in the US to look for snow. (My readers know I never like to refer to our exact location). On our journey, we came upon a petrified forest that we did not know existed. Apparently, there are 5 of them in the United States. Wikipedia lists them this way:

Petrified Forest may refer to:

• Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park, Washington, United States
• Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
• Mississippi Petrified Forest, Mississippi, United States
• Petrified Forest (California), California, United States
• Petrified Forest of Donechina, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
• Petrified forest of Lesbos, Lesbos, Greece
• Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States
• Petrified Forest near Twyfelfontein, Namibia
• Pike Petrified Forest, Florissant, Colorado, United States
• the petrified forest of Chemnitz, Germany

It was a nice trip. We had a big snowball engagement. Daddy and Mama made all the snow balls. Tristan and Dorian threw them at each other and at us. We got them a few times. :) By the end of the trip Tristan could say "petrified" and understood what it meant.

He did have a hat and scarf and gloves on most of the time.

Such a happy outdoorsman.

Close up of a petrified stump.