the train and museum

Hi, it's Bella. Yesterday, I had my first train ride. It was great.

My Dad wanted to take me and Erin to the Museum of Natural History. So he asked if we wanted to take the train, and we said yes. So Erin and I got a backpack and packed cookies, sandwiches and water. Then finally, we got on the train - it was amazing. It was one hour before we reached the museum. It was a two story high museum on the University of Utah campus. I learned about the Anasazi People, we also went to a booth where a lady talked about a lot of interesting stuff. She showed us a scale model of an Anasazi dwelling (check out all the pictures at that link) that took five hundred man hours to make. Then we ate lunch outside, then we went back in the museum and saw the dinosaur exhibit. We also looked at skeletons of a saber tooth tiger. Then, we saw a skeleton of a mini-horse, smaller then a donkey. It was cool. We also learned about coal. Did you know that coal came from trees? The trees would get buried in the ground and lose moisture, and oxygen and get compressed, and eventually, turn into coal. We also got to make an earthquake - you had to stomp on the x to make a vibration that was registered by a seismogram - some sensitive equipment that measures vibrations and tracks earthquakes. Then we got back on the train and went to the library - 5 stories high, the biggest I had ever seen. It was kind of like a mini-mall. It was super cool so we all looked at a few books. Then we had to go home. We were all tired. That was the time I went on a train for the first time.  -Bella