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=﻿Marco Dominguez and Zeke Holm's Photo Journal =

Grand Canyon After we stopped in Flagstaff for lunch we discovered that one of the buses broke down and we needed to take one load of our friends with us to the Grand Canyon. When we got to the Grand Canyon the weather was actually pretty good compared to last years. Everybody was talking about how it wasn’t really cold and the temperature felt like between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Everyone was wearing only about two to three layers. The first thing my group and I did was go to the visitor center to go see a movie about the Grand Canyon. After that we got to see the South Rim, it was beautiful for us because including my partner and I have never been to the Grand Canyon. The Canyon was the hugest thing we ever saw! There were so many rock layers like sedimentary and shale. After about ten minutes of site seeing (average visit is about five minutes) we were on our way to the shuttle that’ll take us to Kaibab Trail and on our way we managed to see a deer about 20 to 25 yards from us. While we got to the Kaibab Trail by shuttle, we saw 20 mules and the mules were really muscular. The Trail took four years to build from 1924 to 1928. While walking the trail we saw a combination of slopes and cliffs, this was because as cliffs change into slopes and slopes into cliffs the rock type changes. After a long hike we ate dinner at a restaurant. Then we took a two hour drive to Page that seemed to last forever to our hotel where we didn’t sleep till midnight.

Riding down Glen Canyon The river ride was cool because it was really calm and our driver told us some interesting facts. When we got to the site a instructor (I think) asked us not to bring guns, c4, dynamite, and knives into the ride. Every kid in the bus was saying “Oh Man” the minute after he said that. When we got on the buses that would take us to the boats, the buses took us through a tunnel that was really dark and every two or three minutes we would see a hole dug in through the rock. When we got insight of the boats we had to put these blue hats on for 30 steps (literally). The life jacket we had to wear were not very old at all. We learned a lot on the boat ride, like when the workers were drilling holes into the Canyon they drilled 18 holes and all rock is Navajo sand system, about 200 million years old. When we stopped to see Anasazi petroglyphs that were really cool, everyone was getting wet and we had a water fight. At the end we docked at Lees Ferry and we ate lunch there. A sad fact is that the first person to settle in the town was escaping from the law because he was responsible for the murder of non-protestant and protestant people (120 people).







Wupaki National Monument The pueblos were pretty cool because these buildings were standing to this day and they were around 900 years old. WOW! Some types of Native Americans that lived here were Hopi (That still live here today) and Navajo. After we got to see the Wupaki home the whole group met in an area that’s to be believed to be a gathering area for the inhabinets. We learned that the word “wupaki” means house cut up in segments and modern Hopis today live in the exact pueblos their ancestors lived in hundreds of years ago. One sad fact is perhaps ten percent of the population lived past 40 years old. Many archeologists believed that it was either droughts that drove them away in a hurry or war. On our way out of the monument we saw a drawing of a snake coiled up. Also there was a ball court there too.

Sunset Crater Sunset Crater was our last stop on this trip and it seemed it went so fast (WHY!!).Sunset Cater grew 1,000 years ago and 1000 feet high! When we first started walking to a viewpoint we saw these rocks with holes in them. Our guide explained that this was the lava that had cooled down and the holes were from exposed to air which created air bubble. The air bubbles mad the rocks very light too. Sunset Crater is a Cinder Cone Volcano. In the1960’s people were able to walk up Sunset Crater and those trails today are seen. The Depth of the crater is 300 feet (too bad we couldn’t see it). When we were walking up the mountain, our feet started to sink in about three to four inches! If the volcano did erupt at the time and place that we were at, we’d disintegrate in one and a half seconds. Zeke and I thought it was cool because the hike up was cool and also the scenery because we’ve never been there till now. Also we got to see trees grow in volcanic rock and a ice cave (Mr. Davi said it was Superman’s layer).l After we got to the buses we left to Phoenix to eat at the Anthem Mall.



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