Today Mama joined CJ's school on a field trip to a rock museum. They had folders and notepads for notes and sketching. We started at a rock pile and all the kids picked large rocks or chunks of granite for taking home. Then we toured the place, saw a movie and all kinds of rocks, petrified wood, crystals, etc.
The room with the glow in the dark rocks was cool:
At the end we returned to the rock pile and the kids looked more closely at the rocks and tried to find special ones rather than big ones. CJ and Mama lucked out and found this crystal. The other kids all wanted to trade with us.
One of the most interesting parts was the movie we saw about the rhodocrosite crystals and how they were mined in Colorado. Apparently the people who started this museum bought the ones below as well as the Alma King for something like $800,000. They sold the Alma King for $600,000 and now the piece below is supposed to be worth millions. Wow. Maybe we should start to buy rocks.
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