Out West! July 15, 2022

 Out west day 4: petrified forest national park

We found lots and lots of pretty rocks. Lots of beautiful scenery. Fossilized tree trunks (they are large, smooth, heavy and beautiful!). Lots of them. Reds and browns and blacks with hints of blue and white. Amazing stuff.

We managed to call it a day and start to drive to the next thing when we got hit by a massive thunderstorm. Complete with heavy rains and hail.

We finished the day by completing the kids junior ranger packets, lovely soup, and a relaxing bit at the pool.

Out West! July 14, 2022

 Out west day 3: Williams to Holbrook

After a relaxed morning (or as relaxed as you can be with two kids) we packed up and headed to Montezuma’s castle, an unbelievable 5 story structure built into the cliffs.

Then we visited Meteor Crater. A meteor hit 50,000 years ago. One of their advertising lines is, this is where space meets the earth. We learned a lot about space, layers of the earth, and NASA training. On the road to the meteor site it had a speed limit sign ”cars 50 miles per hour, meteors 26,000 miles per hour.”