July Camping: Day Two Part 1

Day Two was wonderful.  The rain we went to bed with the night before stopped sometime during the night. We woke to cool weather and relatively clear skies.  It was almost perfect.  We only had a few random puddles in the tent, but nothing a day full of sunshine couldn't dry out.  It was great!

One of the highlights of the day was the discovery of the tunnel!  It's not a short tunnel, either.  The kids loved it!  They "honked" their horns from their seats.  We even got a semi truck to honk a couple of times with us.  They were delighted!

We turned our attention to the little hikes we could take the kids on.  It was decided fairly early that the tour hikes that cost money would be something we'd have to do once the kids were older.  We couldn't take the risk that someone would get scared in the middle of a climb up a ladder, or get too close to the edge of a cliff.  They enjoyed what they could see!

First house was Spruce Tree house.  The kids didn't mind the short hike down to the house.  They even waited relatively patiently for their turn to descend a short ladder into a public kiva.  Joe wanted to poke every nook and cranny in the darkness.  It was cute.  We did have to remind Jack to stay off of the walls.  Everyone loved seeing the old houses.

  

This was one of many kivas we saw during our trip.  We enjoyed the opportunity to crawl down inside one kiva at Spruce Tree house.  Even Joe had to get in on the action.  He didn't want to be left behind (no offense, Macher).

John was so proud of the picture he took of the grinding stones at Spruce Tree house.  Pretty good photo!  There were a few extra ones that he took pictures of, but he was so excited to be able to take a few pictures of the sights.  Thanks, John.

This was one of the few group shots we got of everyone.  The kids didn't seem to mind the hike down to the house.  The return trip was a bit more tiring but nothing strong kids like mine couldn't handle.

Since we did so much on the first day...I think I'm going to break this up into a couple of different entries for Day Two.  Hope you don't mind.  We just had a TON of pictures of this awesome national park.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to share.  Thanks for following our trip!  Enjoy the next couple of blogs!