Today, my family and I went to Death Valley National Park. My dad had some vacation days from work so we used them to come. My sister wouldn’t stop asking “Are we there yet?” all the way here in our car. As soon as we got here we checked into a hotel to make sure we had somewhere to sleep. After that we went to get pamphlets so we would know more about the park. We learned that the park rangers recommend people not to bring pets because of the heat. “It’s a good thing we didn’t bring Sparky with us.” my mom joked. Tonight we went to the park to go look at all of the stars after dinner. I saw different constellations like the Big Dipper and Orion's belt. We came back to the hotel and I started doing my project on national parks that we had to do for Mrs. Wood, my english teacher.
Day 2
Today was so much fun! We got to go adventure all around Death Valley. We saw a bunch of different kinds of plants. We also saw coyotes, ravens, and many different kinds of lizards. In our pamphlets it said that Death Valley didn’t become a national …show more content…
We just walked around while our feet were burning because the ground was so hot. We saw a lot of cacti and other plants. We looked in our pamphlets and saw that 2 years ago over one million people visited the driest and biggest national park in America, Death Valley. We walked around the desert and it kind of reminded of the old Stars Wars movies. In our pamphlets it said some of the original scenes from Star Wars was filmed in Death Valley. It also said Death Valley was named gold diggers in the mid 1800s. It surprised me they named it that even though only one of their men died. When we got back to our hotel we took showers, changed clothes, and went out to eat at a fancy restaurant called Mcdonalds. Now that I think about it I guess we have a pretty interesting