Help us out and we will send you a post card or two from Mexico! Would your kids enjoy getting a few postcards from Mexico in January? Leave a comment with your suggestions and ideas. I will email you privately for a mailing address. Then, our kids will send your kids a few postcards while we are in Mexico. What do we need help with? Some ideas!
We came up with a fun idea this morning as we were reading through the Eyewitness Travel Guide Mexico. Let’s do a scavenger hunt while we are there! More on that in a minute, but first a little background information.
We have equipped the kids with digital cameras and small journals. They also each have a scrapbook. They are working on the “skeleton” pages of the scrapbook now.
They will remain at home (they are the full size scrapbooks) but when we get home, they can fill them with the pictures and writing from their travel journals.
Now, on to the scavenger hunt idea. This morning, we have learned that in Mexico there are:
- 30,000 different plant species
- 450 different mammals
- 1000 types of birds
Some specific items we can look for are:
- Cactus
- Monarch Butterfly (October to March)
- Desert tortoise
- rattlesnake
- flamingos
- leopard frog
- Armadillos
- Whales (birthing January to March)
- Bighorn sheep
- Bobcat
- Jaguars
- Parrots
Now, we just need to figure out how to effectively turn this into a scavenger hunt. I think we will do a category for plants and animals, foods, and cultural/historical landmarks.
Feel free to share your ideas! We will be traveling by plane, car, and occasionally train. We are packing pretty light – a backpack for each of us. I will be taking a lot of pictures and notes – and we will share them here when we get back.
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01 31st, 2008| 
