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Has anybody been to the Painted Dessert and the Petrified Forest? They're REALLY cool!
submitted by BuksRul, age 11, Colorful Colora
(August 6, 2009 - 7:38 am)
(August 6, 2009 - 7:38 am)
What's the painted dessert? What flavor is it? :D
(August 6, 2009 - 11:26 am)
Oops! I mean the painted Desert and it is a national park in Arizona that is a desert and looks like it had been painted in red colors (I feel really stupid)
(August 7, 2009 - 12:40 pm)
:D :D That is kind of funny. But I do that kind of thing all the time too. I wish I could go to those places!
(August 7, 2009 - 1:53 pm)
What's the Petrified Forest?? I've never heard of it! And, no, I've never been to the Painted Desert... :(:( Someday (ahem, once my dad gets a job), my family plans to do the whole south western US trip (and Mexico), since we did CO, WY, SD, and all of those states last year. :):):) Hey, you're from Colorado!!! You have an awesome state!! :):) My great aunt lives there, as do my mom's cousins (I don't remember all of their names), my mom's cousin's son Harrison (whom I just met, and it turns out that he is my only relative my age, other than dad's cousin's daughter, whom I also just met; I heard he might be visiting soon! Can't wait to see another relative my age!! :D), and my great uncle (on my dad's side) and his wife. I don't remember the towns where they live, except that my great aunt lives in Fort Collins, and I think Harrison might live in Colorado Springs. :):) Okay, here's a question: Everybuggy in Maine pronounces Colorado "Call - o - raw - doe", but I noticed that all of my relatives call it "Call - o - rahh - doe" (sorry, I'm bad at writing pronunciations...). Which is right??
(August 7, 2009 - 3:09 pm)
I call it Call-oh-rad(as in radburger. Ever been to Red Robin? Do they have those in Maine?)-oh.
(August 7, 2009 - 4:05 pm)
I live fairly close to Fort Collins. I live in Ault which is about a 30 minute drive east from Fort Collins. You pronounce Colorado Call-o-rad-oe (I'm bad at pronounciations too).
The petrified forest is were many many trees have fosilized (is that spelled right?) into crystals there are hundreds of them! It is very cool (the painted desert and the petrified forest are in the same park so if you see one you can see the other (I prefered the Petrified Forest.)!)!
(August 8, 2009 - 9:21 am)
I pronounce it the way Paige does.
(August 8, 2009 - 1:00 am)
I haven't, but they sound really neat! Gosh, there
are so many places I want to travel to... I'm gonna
have to mark those down on my list (Not that I have
an actual list. I mean there isn't enough paper in
the world for that, but you get the point). ;D
(August 8, 2009 - 10:01 am)
Odd, everyone I know pronounces Colorado Paige's way. Maybe it's a Maine/Texas accent thing...
(August 9, 2009 - 3:34 pm)
I pronounce it Paige's way too, though I know lots of people who pronounce it the other way...
I've been to A petrified forest. I have no doubt there are (is?) more than one. What one are you talking about??
(August 9, 2009 - 6:18 pm)
The one in Arizona
(August 13, 2009 - 12:25 pm)
I've been on for an hour???? Oops. I better get off. Bye!!!!!
(August 9, 2009 - 7:30 pm)