SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK

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Saguaro National Park is an interesting park.

The visitor's center has a few little facts and a couple of displays.

It also has a little walking trail for when it hasn't rained recently. The reason you can't go on it if it's rained recently is because it goes along a dry creek bed.

Saguaro National Park

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Most FUN: Getting another Junior Ranger badge. This time the Ranger made an announcement to the whole visitor center!

the WORST thing: having to walk around so much.

Families should go here so you can see different cacti. Drive a ways then walk on a trail up the hills. You can even wander OFF the trail, if you are careful of the pricklies. And make sure your kids do the Jr. Ranger program!

This is a picture of one of the Saguaro Cacti. (You say it Suh-Wa-Roe!!!)

Then there is a close-up of the lines of pricklies on the whole cactus.

WALNUT CANYON NATIONAL PARK

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Walnut Canyon is a pretty cool place because you can see the place where people used to live about 800 years ago. One of the only down sides is that you have to go down around 200 steps to get to the ruins.

But if you don't want to have the hassle of going down the steps, there is a lookout balcony so you can see the canyon and a few of the ruins in the walls.

There is also a little museum inside the visitor's center that tells a little bit about the people that lived there.

Walnut Canyon National Park

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BEST Thing: was getting to walk into the houses down low. You could see the soot from hundreds of years ago!

the most TIRESOME Thing: was having to walk down so many steps and so many ramps. Then we had to walk aaaallllll the way back up again. I'm getting tired just thinking about it!

Families should go here, as long as they try to get their Junior Ranger Badge. (Then the museum isn't quite so boring cuz it's a scavenger hunt!) Go see my other blog to read all about what it was like. ( http://imagineanna.blogspot.com/ )

Larry's Antique Store -- Cottonwood, AZ

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The most INTERESTING thing: the old washing machine you rocked with a handle. That would have been hard work! Make sure to find this machine when you are there! (unless they finally sold it!)

The WORST/most FRUSTRATING thing: we ran out of time and couldn't see everything outside.

If your family likes anything old, or if you like to see lots of junk and look for interesting things in it, you should DEFINITELY come here!

ANTIQUE STORE (Cottonwood, AZ)

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Larry's Antiques is an old antique store that has tons of different antiques of all the shapes, sizes, and descriptions that you can think of. It's lots of fun for everyone in the family, including kids.

JEROME, AZ

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Jerome, the well populated ghost town...yeah, that's exactly what I said, GHOST TOWN. Yeah right.

Well I guess it was kind of fun...I mean we got to see a fair amount of art, fancy chairs, odd paintings, a glassblowing demonstration, you get the idea.

There was even an "old" playground: it had one basic jungle gym, a swing set, and a Calvin and Hobbs slide (steep metal ladder to a straight, slippery metal slope with no flat at the end...)