Acadia was super pretty with the fall colors. I liked the red trees. I liked the tide pools because we saw a big crab. There was also baby crabs. There was a whole bunch of snails on the rocks. There was seaweed, limpets, and mussels. A mussel, if it is alive, is super hard to get open. Starfish really like to eat mussels. We did not see any starfish. The ranger told us that the starfish in Maine are a lot smaller than in Oregon. The Maine coast is warmer in the summer, she said. We went around the lake on a bike ride. We went on a carriage road. It is a road so you won’t see any cars. There are a lot of people riding their bikes and walking but we didn’t see a carriage. The carriage road was really fun. We went on a boat ride and saw harbor seals. We learned the lobster has to be more than 3 inches and less than 5 inches to keep them. If it is more than 4 inches, it is considered a jumbo lobster. Acadia is really beautiful.
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Niagara Falls are so cool!! Niagara Falls are made up of three falls; American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and Horseshoe Falls. We went to Cave of the Winds. We went to the Hurricane Deck. Mom took pictures and it was so windy and so wet that I could barely see. On the Maid of the Mist boat ride, I had my hood on but Lance kept his hood off. It was like he had just took a bath. I should have worn sandals instead of tennis shoes. It was super windy during the boat ride. During the boat ride, I saw a stick that was standing straight up between the rocks. I was surprised it hadn’t broken or snapped away from the rocks. I am glad they gave us jackets for the boat ride or else all of our clothes would have been soaked. At Old Fort Niagara, it was so cool because there was towers and it was made by 3 different countries. The British stole Old Fort Niagara from the Americans but eventually they gave it back. The French first built Old Fort Niagara. They said they were going to build a house and the outside part looked like a house but inside it looked like a fort. There were sleeping quarters, cooking quarters, and a well when you first walked in. On display were a few animal furs. At the Power Plant, you got a little necklace thing you could scan to play games. One of the games, you had to make all the different layers to make Niagara Falls. Also there was one where it took a picture of you climbing up a mountain side. The first movie we saw was one about electricity. At first I thought something was going to shock me but nothing did. At first it was dark and then a flash of electricity zoomed across the room. The second movie was 4D. It was awesome. You were supposed to be an electrical current traveling from the water to someone’s house. It sprayed water at you and the seat moved. It did different things in the chair, like pushing you forward and rocking you. The 4D movie was so cool. I learned that electrical current get big and before they reach someone’s house they have to shrink again. It is called hydroelectric energy. At Whirlpool park, it is half the water that is going over Niagara Falls because the power plant uses half of the water. We took a hike from the top of Devil’s Hole all the way to the bottom. It was more steps than the Uncle Tom’s trail in Yellowstone. We went down 407 steps and a bunch more following the river.
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Lily: I am looking forward to learning about US History and seeing Yellowstone and the Lincoln Memorial. I really want to meet new friends and family! Archives
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