Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mesa Verde

Last week Jared took work off and we were able to spend a few days up in Bear Lake with my sister Jamie and her family (not one single picture, guess I was enjoying their company too much) then we dropped our kids off with Jared's sister Shay and went down south to Mesa Verde.

If you've never been here you gotta go! It's pretty amazing to see how these people lived!!!



This is just up in a cliff!


this is called a Kiva. It's like a religious temple. Most of the dwellings had one or more of these.


You can see a cliff dweling behind Jared's smart little face.


We had to climb up some ladders to get to the bigger dwellings. I didn't think I'd get scared, but, I did.


We had to squish through a few of these too.


Four Corners "monument" of course it's under construction. The saying "luck favors the prepared" is a bunch of bull.


This is near Moab. We took the house tour and it's pretty cool. A man who was a miner decided he didn't like living in a super hot cabin back in the early 1900's so he decided to blow out a hole in the mountain and live in it with his wife. They ran a cafe there and made all sorts of nick nacks. It really is pretty cool.


Ahhh, it feels good to get all cleaned up after a few days in the sweaty, suncreeny, sunshine.