Gifts from Aunt Cyndi

My aunt Cyndi and uncle Rich travel around the country and work in different national parks as park rangers. My aunt was living on Assateague Island where the wild horses live earlier this year.

 They always send us maps, pamphlets, books and other gifts from wherever they are. Recently they went to a rocks and mineral show and they sent us a bag full of gems. The kids LOVED it. We spent all morning exploring our new gem book and trying to find the names of all of them. We recently read Agate: What Good is a Moose? by Joy Morgan Dey and had learned about all the gems so we used that as a resource as well. We immediately wrote a letter to aunt Cyndi and Uncle Rich thanking them for our gifts and asking them questions about our new things. 

So here are some pictures of us exploring: