Cliff Palace at the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Friday, June 25, 2010

Visited the Mesa Verde National Park today. It was cool. This is the park where the Indians built their houses in the cliffs. It was cool. I could totally live there. We took two tours. The first we got to climb a 35' ladder up the side of a cliff to reach the dwelling. To exit this tour, one had to crawl through a small tunnel. New rule for today, No skipping along the cliff edge!! Hoke almost started to hyperventilate while climbing the ladder. The ranger told us not to look down, but does Hoke listen? I wish I could figure out how to get video uploaded to the blog. Jake is helping, but, so far, unsuccessful. The second tour, Addie started to get altitude sickness. She almost fainted. We left the tour early with the group ahead of ours. Jake thanked her for getting "sick" because he was getting bored. I was ready to leave the tour because one of the other tourists stood right behind me and was making this awful tongue smacking sound. I thought I was going to scream. I need to thank Addie, too.

35' ladder up the side of the cliff

Tiny tunnels to crawl through

Cliff Palace

Wild Horses from the Ute Indian Reservation