Pictures from the trip part three!!!!

Here are the pictures from the Grand Canyon (where I swear we were stalked by some animal at night) and New Mexico.

These are the actual structures in the park! They are very old here is what I found on them:

Kivas are subterranean ceremonial structures used for religious purposes by modern Puebloan tribes. Many kivas are circular in shape and have a hearth in the middle of the room with a ventilator shaft at the southeastern face of the room. This kiva was probably built and used for only a short time around A.D. 1050-1080. It may have fallen into disuse due to the collapse of the north wall.

here is the website where you can virtually go inside the kivas scientists have found!

http://www.nps.gov/features/grca/001/archeology/palk.html

 Then we went into the totally cool museum on how the grand canyon was formed!

The Grand Canyon is gigantic. It is the eleventh largest national park, but is the fourth largest in the continental US. It is 277 miles long. The width of the park varies from one end to the other, but in some places it is 18 miles wide. All of the acreage totals 1904 square miles! But the Grand Canyon is not just big around. It is also deep. It averages one mile in depth, but parts of it are much deeper than that. In fact, it is so big and so deep that it can be seen from space! 

To learn more about the Grand Canyon check out this neat kid friendly website!!!!! http://kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0078B-grand-canyon.php

Then we went to the four corners! it is where you can stand in four states at once!!!

Then we went to the White Sands in New Mexico!!

There use to be an ocean here millions of years ago!

 Here lew and I try sledding on the gypsum sand dunes!!! It did not work very well.

 then the box broke

Photos from the trip part two

Here are the pictures form San Francisco!!!

China town.. eh its ok

Cool street art everywhere!!!!

If anyone is a fan of the Princess Diaries this is the game that Julie Andrews plays with Anne Hathaway!!! This whole arcade was just totally neat!

Then we got to see the SEA LIONS!!!! They were so loud and funny!!

 There was even some babies there!!!!! vvvvvvherevvvvvv