We slept a little whiles away from the park and as were were coming back to it today we stopped by a tourist shop by the side of the road. They sold petrified wood and other stuff, and for some reason had a bunch of ostriches outside with a big sign that said, "CAUTION OSTRICH BITE". They do indeed. While Mom and Dad were perusing the petrified wood, I (Shezena) wanted to go see the ostriches. On my way out the lady informed me that I could feed them if I bought some ostrich food from them. I bought a few cups, gathered the kids, and walked to the ostriches. They are aggressive things. As soon as they saw those cups they started fighting to get as close to the fence as they could. I didn't know whether I wanted to feed them anymore or not. No one else wanted to do it first, and I thought other people must do it and not die so I might as well just go for it. I held the cup up and immediately they started pounding their heads into the cup, all at the same time. "Hold the cup tight, or they'll take it from you" the lady told me, and they did try. And bite. They bit me, on accident I'm sure, and broke my nail, and then they bit me again two more times. Yes, I know they couldn't have kept bitting me if I just stopped feeding them, but it was so much fun.
Mom and Dad came out of the store with a pretty piece of petrified wood and an ostrich egg. Yes, that's right, an ostrich egg. What for? To eat of course! We'll have that tomorrow for breakfast and tell you how it was.
We got back to the Petrified Forest and continued on our exploration. This time we got to finish the whole thing and we saw the friendly ranger again. We went to this one section of the park where there the trees used to be huge and many, not only wide around but incredibly tall. They were all petrified now and fallen of course, be you could just imagine what it must have been like all those years ago. The wood, you can find some pieces that are pink, purple, red, orange, and even clear. It was mystifying and beautiful. This place was well worth the two days.
After we were done with the park we were tired and hungry. Since we've hit Texas, we've been craving one thing: Jack in the Box. Now was a great time to get some tacos. Not too long later we found one, just the drive through was open but it was about to close at 11. Dad assessed the situation and determined that the RV would not be able to fit through the drive through. So for the sake of his hungry family, he got out of the RV and walked up to the box to order in the drive through. Unfortunately, even after Dad got out and stood in the drive through, the person in front of us was the last person to be able to order before they closed. A lady can out though and told Dad that there was another one down the street that was open 24 hours a day. All was not lost. We drove on down and this one's drive through was a lot bigger and taller so we went through it. Dad ordered and we very carefully drove up to the window with the RV. Or we tried to at least. Dad started to go through but it was looking smaller and smaller. He told me to hop out and make sure he could fit. As far as I could see, he could, but that was as far as I could see. I stood as far back as I could to see the top of the RV, and I thought I could see all of it, but there was a big ditch behind me and I couldn't go back any farther. If I had been able to, I would have seen on the top of the RV in the middle, there's the air conditioner, but I couldn't so I gave him the okay. He started going and stopped asking if the top was hitting anything. I didn't see it hitting anything so I told him. He tried again but said no he couldn't go any farther because he felt like he was hitting something.
He had to back out. By now we had already been at this for a few minutes, and there were a few people in their cars behind us. Funny. We were going to have to ask all of them to back out of the drive through so we could get out. I walked up to each of the cars, explained to the strangers what happened and told them they were going to have to back all the way out. Luckily they thought it was kinda funny and gladly obliged. We got our food, backed out and got out of there.
After our Jack in the Box adventure, we found a nice place to pull over and sleep. We gave Dad his Father's day present, drank our tea and went to bed.
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