Less than a week!

Wednesday the girls and I are leaving for a three week geology/ anthropology/ archeology field trip. We have lived in Colorado four years now and amazingly, we have not traveled the west! I'm pretty certain that was part of the reason we made this move... but four years later I remember that we wanted our kids to live in a socially liberal area.

So... I present everyone with my extremely limited itinerary.

Day 1: Leave Boulder County... at 3AM (I am hoping Lex will sleep through most of this leg!) Visiting the Pueblos of Hovenweep National Monument.

Day 2-4: Mesa Verde National Park to explore the anasazi cliff dwellings. Note: Athena has expressed her rather harsh opinion of this not being the Mayan ruins:)

Day 5-6: Petrified National Forest

Day 7-11: Grand Canyon where we will hike, enjoy nature and rock layers, actually, half the reason for this trip.

Day 12-13: Arches to study how nature created the arches;)...

Day 14-15: Dinosaur National Monument.

Day 16-21: Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. Grand Tetons will primarily be spent hiking but Yellowstone will have a strong focus on the Caldera (which Athena is obsessed with... free documentaries on volcanoes can apparently do that to a five/ six year old;)

Day 22-23: Travel home!

We are very excited for this trip and a HUGE thank you to James for relaxing alone for 23 days;)