Bandelier & Back
Last Saturday, we drove a couple hours north for the kids' first visit to Bandelier National Monument. Basically, it's a canyon filled with petroglyphs, cliff dwellings, and ruins from the ancestral Pueblo people that lived in this area until about 500 years ago.
Seeing the old kivas and remains of mortar homes is cool, but the definite highlight is climbing into the dwellings built into the base of the canyon wall.
By midday it was too hot to enjoy more hiking, so we headed back for some lunch and a stop in Santa Fe.
I really wanted to check out the international folk art festival, but was outvoted in favor of the children's museum.(Probably just as well since the art up there is generally not in our budget!)
Once again, the face painting station was Greta's favorite, and she dedicated some serious time and effort to perfecting her look.
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And after she ran out of her own skin to write on, she moved on to the rest of us...
Funny how it's so nice to get out of town every now and then, even if it's just for a day :).
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2 comments:
Fun, Fun!! Greta definitely has talent in the art of face painting.
G K
LOL on the face painting! She has always been creative with colors and skin, flashback to her with markers at the hotel at age 2 I think. Looks like you had a wonderful time. I also agree it's great to go somewhere new even for a day, look forward to the days we can :0)
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