I am not quite sure why I didn't get very many pictures of the stuff we saw on day three. Oh wait, because they were mostly pit houses and John took a ton of pictures that didn't quite turn out. We did find some ruins of houses that had been built on previous sites. Meaning, people built a house, abandoned it, and fifty years later, someone else built on top of it. It was pretty interesting.
We were still wondering "why?" but no one seems to know. The kids quickly went through the houses and were mostly eager to ride the Wetherill Mesa tram. They enjoyed the little bus ride through the remains of several forest fires.
This was the day we saw the famous Long House and had lunch at the top of the trail in a covered pavilion. We didn't know what else to do for the rest of the day so we decided to go back to camp. We arrived just before it started pouring. The kids enjoyed watching a movie in the tent on the portable DVD system. The rain stopped as the movie ended. Good timing!
Well, in the morning, we packed up and headed for Four Corners. The kids didn't really understand the significance of the site and it took some encouragement for them to do anything other than stand around looking confused. But that's another moment we may have to revisit when they're older. For future knowledge, it cost us $3/person (for those 6+) to enter the monument. Didn't know that when we started out.
And it was off to Arches for the rest of the afternoon. We'll get to that in the next post.
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