NATIONAL PARKS- by Zach

I've been having a great time on my trip! The National Parks that I have gone to so far are Mammoth Cave, Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace, and Stones River National Battlefield. Stones River National Battlefield is interesting because almost 24,000 people died or were wounded in that battle.  We visited a cemetery and saw all the Union Soldiers's graves.  And in every National Park there is a Junior Ranger booklet with fun activities that you can do about the National Park you are in. also if you do enough of them, then you get a souvenir that you can keep for free.

Mammoth Cave was awesome! I saw two bats. One was sleeping and the other was flying. We got to go to two parts of Mammoth Cave, and one of the parts you had to go down 300 steps! and the other part of Mammoth Cave was cool and you had to twist and turn and do all that kind of stuff. Also Mammoth Cave is the longest cave in the whole world! There is lots of mammals in Mammoth Cave.    There is bats, beetles, eyeless shrimp, eyeless fish, salamanders, and lots more.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace was cool.  His house was very small, but he liked his house.  It did not have a door. It only had one room.  One of his chores was chopping wood.  His one roomed house only had one window also. When he grew up he had four kids, and two of them were Willie and Tad.  Both of these sons got terrible fevers.  One of the kids's fever got better. and the other, Willie's fever got worse and he died.  When Abraham grew a little bit more, he became a President, but this was after failing a lot.  He got assassinated, but the man that assassinated Abraham broke his leg as he escaped.