Day 66

It's FIELD TRIP FRIDAY! Hooray! We've been so busy the last couple of weeks, okay, month, that we haven't taken a field trip on Friday. Well, we're back on track.

Today we headed to Petroglyph National Monument to explore signs/characters made by Native Americans hundreds of years ago. We got a late start but we had a lot of fun trekking through the sand in search of cryptic characters among the thousands of volcanic rocks. After missing the first one on the map, we hit our stride and found the remaining petroglyphs with not much trouble. Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of graffiti/replicas on the trail we took so it was hard to know what was authentic and what was not.

Our petroglyph scavengers at the turtle looking petroglyph. It's to the left of Mark in the photo but difficult to see.
A bird and man petroglyph
Our soon-to-be Junior Rangers. The girls are busy working on their workbooks now!