We had a really fun Thanksgiving! Since it was a 4 day weekend, we had decided to camping. We went to Dinosaur Valley State Park. It's between Waco & Fort Worth.

It was a long drive getting there, but Jon kept himself busy with his Leapster for most of the 5 hour drive. I noticed that he naturally takes frequent breaks to look up and around. I complimented him on that, because it's much easier on the eyes.

Jon & Daddy had to climb to get to the perfect spot.

The state park is known for it's dinosaur foot prints. The best preserved prints are under water most of the time. Apparently, exposure to air makes them deteriorate quickly.

Jon found a long stick that he thought was the perfect walking stick!

It was... for Daddy! Luckily, Daddy found a scaled down walking stick for Jon.

We went for a walk on this path we saw. It didn't go anywhere, so we ended up turning around. It sure was beautiful, though.

At the end of the weekend, I told Charlie that my favorite part of the camping trip was this walk to "nowhere"! Jon found some huge acorn type nuts.

These statues were made for the World Fair sometime in the 60's. They were given to the park in 1970.

Daddy had to help Jon jump across the rocks to keep him from falling in the water.
We went to another footprint site there at the park. It's amazing how clear this print is! I did think that they would be bigger.

Jon was in a jumping kind of mood!
He was jumping up every step!



We went for another walk, and came across some dear.

This was taken as the sun is going down.

A night time walk with the Tonka Truck. That truck has gone on every single camping trip!

That night, we roasted marshmallows! Jon ate some, but not those that were roasted.

Snuggle time!

Saturday morning, we headed over to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. It's a huge drive through park. They only allow each car to buy 1 bag of food, to keep the animals from getting too much.

This was taken at the rest stop in the middle. We stopped for lunch, and finally got a picture with all 3 of us. I couldn't figure out the self timer on the new camera, so we used the old one for this. (First thing I did when we got home was to look up the self timer instructions!)

These 2 pictures are of the overlook at the cafe, which is where the one of all of us is taken.

Back on the road. Spotted this baby laying in the grass.

Ever feel like you have a giraffe sticking it's tongue out at you?

That was one big zebra coming at us! She was wanting some food!

Jon was "helping" Daddy drive the entire time.

This is what happens when you run out of food!

Jon was still telling us about the zebra licking Mommy's window!

This is the baby giraffe. It came over to see if we had any food.

We didn't.

Just before climbing in the car to go home, I took this picture of Jon with his new friend. He found this friend at the gift shop. His name is Silly Giraffe. It's super cute to see Jon sleeping with it!