Day Seven - Rest....Recoup...and Rock(dwellings)!

Forgot to mention that we hit the 2000 mile mark somewhere in Monument Valley - every mile driven by my wonderful husband. What a guy!

This was the view from the Econo Lodge - Rune was moved to exclaim "I love Colorado mornings!"

We drove up from Cortez to the Anasazi Heritage Center, and Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. There was a nice interpretive center, and some ruins right outside of it. This was a single family home, almost 1,000 years ago.

We took a short hike up to a hilltop with amazing views, and snow. The boys had been begging Lars to pull over every time we passed a patch of (dirty, icy) snow...so it was great that there were big, clean patches for them to have fun with. And in.

Rune, with snowball, with 1/2 frozen McPhee Reservoir in the background.

The pueblo ruins at the top of the hill were big - they never really explained who did what how...but it dates to the 1120s.

Kind of a bummer that it is named after the Spanish conquistadors responsible for the near-extinction of the Pueblo Indians.

 

Two boys, one dog...with what Rune called the  "Coors Light Mountains" behind them, next to Escalante Pueblo.

Two boys, one dog...worn out from hiking, snowball fights, stepping in cactus, running uphill, and laughing hard. No V-log today either. Tired boys, crummy wifi, and for the grown-ups....the Top Chef finale!