Room+14A

Room 14A ~  Lauren Kummerow & Gabrielle Malkin

* __Welcome To Our Grand Canyon Photo Journal__ *

~South Rim of the Grand Canyon from Oh Ah Point

~Grand Canyon picture from Ooh Ah Point (With part of the Lake at the bottom)

__4/16/09-__ Today Our class visited the Grand Canyon. It was so much fun, but before we got to see it, we all had to close our eyes. When we opened them, all I saw was the GRAND CANYON! It was so big and beautiful it almost looked like a painting. The first word that came out of our mouth's was, "Holy Cow!" An interesting fact is that the Grand Canyon actually used to be under water, and all the proof is on the rocks you see. When we all had some time to look at it, we then split up into groups and went for a hike to see the overlook. After a long hike down the South Kaibab Trail (about a mile) we saw even more of the Grand Canyon, and even though we didn't hike down to the bottom, the South Rim of the Grand Canyon was mind blowing being able to see that wonderfull veiw.



~South Kaibab Trail that we hiked down (Our Giude **↑** )

__4/17/09-__ Today is the 17 and our class went on a boat ride down the Colorado River and we got to see the dam. The boat ride was very neat because we got to travel down a lot of it, and we saw some amazing things. For instance we saw, "the ghost of pacman" and Lee's farry, the actual one he used. The River is 700 feet tall, and you are only able to see 500 feet, all of the rest is under water. I thought that the boat ride was a great learning experince for all of us, and i thingk we all had a great time (beside the fact of it being really cold!). We stoped at a little trail that lead us to the petrodliphs, all of the petrogliphs were so detailed and they were things I' ve never seen before, they were really neat.

~My group on the boat

~One of the petrogliphs (Our favorite)

__4/17/09-__ After the boat ride, we drove across the bridge and saw the other side of the dam. Then we were on our way to the Wupatki National Monument, but when we got there we couldn't go in because there was already a school there so we went to the Wukoki Pueblo instead, but that was just as much fun. An interesting fact that we learned was that Wukoki means "Long house cut in two". The house was made entirly out of brick, it was out in the open, and around the house were many peices of pottery all over the place all broken in peices. The Anazazi Ancestral Pueblliens Hotsosinim used to live there a very long time ago. I thought that this place was very beautiful and it had a great veiw from the top of it because it was an open area. I think this place was way better than going to the Wupatki National Monument.

~Wukoki Pueblo

~Our class on the top of the House

__4/17/09-__ It was nearing the end of the day and everyone was very tired, but we still had ONE stop left, Sunset Crater. This stop was very interesting because it's name doesn't even relate to what it actually is. Sunset Crater is really a Cinder Cone Volcano, not a crater, the reason it is called Sunstet Crater is beacause of all the colors, it relates to sunset colors. All over the place there was ash, and burnt (broken) trees,and on the rocks you would see this greenish, moldy stuff. I thought this stop was the most exciting because we had time to walk around and explore this place. It was really beautiful.

~Sunset Crater

~A dead tree that has fallen over *Thank you for joining us*