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Ten More Nights

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Today we have ten nights left until the trip ends. We are at Riding Mountain National Park where, I am glad to say, we saw three more animals. The first we wished not too see. I was sitting in the tent when I heard someone running as fast as they could. Then I realized it was Lucy and she was going quicker then normal. When she came to the tent and caught her breath again she said
       “It’s a tick! It’s on my neck!” Mama saw it there and daddy went to go and get things to remove it. After we got it out we all checked our body’s for ticks to make sure nobody else had any.


That was yesterday. Today we were driving and we saw a black bear on the side of the road. We slowly drove by it but rolled down to windows first to take a picture of it. Mama and Daddy had already seen a bear on the trip but this was me and Lucy’s first time.


Then we went to a bison enclosure where we saw so many bison. They sat there at the edge of the road watching us as we slowly drove by. The big ones were so hairy and majestic and watched us with large eyes. Then there were the smaller ones that were with there mothers or lying on the grass. We drove through one more time and the bison were sitting down. I named one of them Mr. Majestic my bison buddy


(At the time of posting, we actually have only 8 nights left.)
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