In case you didn't know (how could you not?), Smokey the Bear was found in a forest fire in New Mexico very near to where we live. So there's a little museum and memorial to Smokey in a little neighboring town called Capitan. Hanna happened to already have something of a peaked interest in the bear because we did a whole class on him and forest fire prevention in preschool last year (she became an instant fan of both). So when we told the kids we were taking them to the Smokey the Bear museum, Hanna was way excited and the other kids didn't really know what we were talking about. But they sure know Smokey now! Everybody wanted to join the Fire Patrol, and we all got badges to prove it. We had a long fun day of exploring the towns and the beautiful scenery around us (Ruidoso, Cloudcroft and the Lincoln National Forest included).
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