4/9/2011

            Guess what we drove into, A SNOW STORM. We were arriving at a camp site when it suddenly started to snow. It started as a little snow. Then it snowed herder and harder and harder until we were driving in to a snowstorm. Luckily, we got to the campground and got a spot. On the way there, we stopped by a place that mom wanted to go to. We hiked to an over look and we saw a ruin. On the way up to the car, Zoe and I thought we saw a sign that said dinosaur footprints. We walked up and we saw some tiny footprints in the rock. Tomorrow, we’re going to Mesa Verde [MH]. After we left Canyon de Chelly we went through a windstorm then a snowstorm and then another windstorm! We got to Navajo National Monument.  We hiked to Betatakin over look. We couldn’t go down because it was too early… it opens on the 25^th but Belle [our goat] gives birth on the 26^th. Mom wouldn’t camp at Navajo National Monument. She proclaimed it was going to be too cold and that they didn’t plow the roads. The weather forecast said it was going to snow. So we drove to Mesa Verde[ZH].  Interesting to drive through a sand storm and then a wind storm.  I am bummed that we didn’t get to hike down to Betatakin.  It looks so gorgeous from the overlook….red sandstone caves with red sandstone buildings in a covering of snow!  We will have to put it on the list to return to. {KS} WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!  We can't seem to upload our photos at the moment (the beautiful ones of Mesa Verde etc).  Please go to our facebook page (facebook.com/hoffsing) to access these.  I hope to fix the glitch soon.