Who is that cutie peeking out?

Here I am!

Hi Everyone!

The camera loves me.

At The Dropzone

Hi everyone! I'm still traveling in Texas with my family.

This weekend we went to a Dropzone where my Mom and Dad saw a bunch of their old skydiving friends.
This is our friend, Kay. She is a skydiver.

Before she gets on the airlpane, she practices on the ground with another skydiver.

This is Kay coming down with her parachute.

Kay had fun doing her jump.

My Dad helped me learn a little bit about packing Kay's parachute.

Then my Mom and Dad let me use a hanging harness to practice how to use skydiving equipment.

The Dropzone is a fun place to learn about skydiving.

Howdy from Texas!

Hi, it's Evan. I am in Texas right now.

I got to go hunting for fossils with my family this week.

A long, long time ago Texas was covered by ocean.

Shells of ancient snails and clams were left behind and covered by layers of mud. Over time the mud became rock and the shells slowly changed into fossils.

Here are some of the fossilised shells we found.

A fossil happens when a shell or bone turns into rock.

All of the animals that made these shells lived about one hundred million years ago!

Some of the shells have fallen out of the rock.

Some of the fossils we found are still inside of the rock.

It is pretty cool to hold something that old in your hand.

A person who studies fossils is a paleontologist. They can learn about what life was like millions of years ago. They use pickaxes like this to break apart rocks and little paintbrushes to clean the fossils they find.

We also found a geode which is a hole in the rock that crystals formed inside of. It is very pretty.

I hope I can bring in some fossils and the geode to show the class when I get home.

See you soon,

EVAN