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Yes, I believe Biscuit, one of my cats, got hold of my camera and took a picture of Shyboy before we left to make sure we didn’t forget them. So the pictures of the cats were staged and weren’t actually part of the trip.. 
Ok, It’s official, a day out west with no law problems. However, for those planning on a similar trip I can tell you to be very careful coming through New Mexico. I’ve never seen so many police in my life. I believe we passed a minimum of 50 police cars in the last half of our crossing.
We almost drove past the Petrified Forest because the area around it didn’t look all that interesting. Boy would that have been a mistake because today’s pictures are absolutely awesome. I’ve never seen so many interesting things in one place in my life. We ended up having to skip the last 20% of the park because it was much larger than we had imagined. If you get through this area though, you need to make sure you stop by the park as its worth the $10 entry fee.
To end the day we drove through the snow and up to the Grand Canyon park. We’re staying in a hotel here at the South gate of the park and are all excited to get started in the morning. We plan to spend a couple days here before moving on to Las Vegas. I’ll be posting again tomorrow with hopefully some good pictures from the day.
See you then…
-glenn hancock