OUR VACATION...(Part 3)

This is the north end of Lake Powell, it is about 2 hours south of our home.

About every direction that you look you can see it spreading as far as you can see.

It backs up from the Glen Canyon dam down by Arizona.

It has wound it's way back and forth, in and out of all the mountains.
It is famous for house boats and water skiing, warm water and warm days.

It's a beautiful drive around it, just breath taking!

This and the next two pictures is Hidden Arches...we didn't hike down to them,
but it was fun to look way down there at them! Just beautiful.

How would you like to walk across the top of this? Not me!

I felt like a double decker bus! These two ride in their kennel most of the time
but here they ride on me! Bo loves to snuggle up in my lap and Zak has to be up
where he can see. Most of the time that means where you see him here or on the
back of my husbands neck!

We went to the Monticello Temple...it sits right in a neighborhood.
It is one of the smaller temples but so beautiful inside. It is so very
peaceful there.

Right to the side of it is an open field and as it starts to get dark,
the deer come down from the mountain to eat in the fields.

The Angel Moroni sits way up on top...

It was so pretty as we came out that night.

Next morning we headed out to go see Arches National Park.
This big rock was just there along side the highway, very unusual.

This great big arch was just right along the highway too...
can you see the person up there inside the arch? I loved this
big old arch...it was quite the sight!

This place is along side the highway also...a shop and home that has been
there for years. Quite the life time project...very interesting place.

This was on the rock as we left...pretty big fellow!

Here he is again...very cool!

I had never been to Arches...it is so awesome! As you drive up and
into it, on every turn are the most amazing rock formations!

I said to my husband...I think God and Jesus Christ had a lot of fun
when they created this part of the world! The formations are so unusual.

These tall walls of red rock rise up so high, it's just hard to believe,
even though you are sitting there looking up at it!

This formation reminded me of a group of chiefs standing therein their long robes.

This is balanced rock...impressive but not that big, right?!

It is that big, and it is amazing!

This big massive rock was being climbed! Can you see the climber
up above and another one down below? Courage more than mine!

So many neat formations everywhere we looked.

Another massive arch..see the people at the bottom?

You could walk up and into this one and explore all over in it.

I loved this kind of formation too, reminds me of a loaf of bread!

See the people inside at the bottom...there

were children and families having so much fun.

See the people down at the bottom...they are getting ready to climb this!

A picture of Delicate Arch, it has been done on a rock here.

There are lots of these in these mountains, but real ones!

This is a road that winds way up, as we watched there was a big white

vehicle that had got stuck and couldn't go any further. They had to get

help for them to get out of there.

~Me and my hubbie~
The weather was perfect.

What an wonderful world this is...and it is such a gift to be able
to enjoy it and appreciate this God given gift!

See the person?

And another tunnel...and you know what I do in tunnels...roll down the
windows and SCREAM... one of those high soprano screams!!!
What a fun trip we had, thanks for sharing it with us!

LOVE YA

JULIE

OUR VACATION...(Part 2)

Me and my husband, enjoying a great vacation, come along for part 2.

This and some of the following pictures are of such an awesome place!
I had never been here before so I was so in awe of such history.

These pictures are at a place called Mesa Verde...have you been there?
They were the homes of Indian cliff dwellers and I do mean cliffs!

These homes were carved right out of the rock face of a cliff.
Can you imagine living 9,000 feet up on the face of a cliff?!

This is a Kiva..a sacred place of gathering for their community.
Dug down in rock...I can't imaging how they could do it.

A set of stone grinders where they ground corn for meals.
Kind of like our islands in our kitchens but they were on their knees!

Several families would live here for generations.

I kept wondering how they kept the babies away from the ledges!

This place was so hidden, right at the end of a box canyon
and totally protected from the elements or danger from enemies.

This must be the master bedroom don't you think?!

These cliff dwelling were discovered by cattlemen in the 1880's.
They were out looking for some lost cattle, this is what it looked like
when they found it. It has now been worked on a bit but is much the same.

A picture of what it may have looked like in the days that it
was lived in by Indian families. The men had to climb up and
over the face of the cliff to go out hunting for food, It must have
been hard work to get it back and into their home!

This looks like it is sitting ground level but it is a drop off below
their homes.

Hundreds of people, families would live here together.
The homes went way back into the mountain too. When
I first was this I was just gasping...it is so awesome!

A tower right in the middle of the cliff village.

The Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloans Indians lived in these cliff dwellings
in 1100 AD. They are built of adobe, sometimes 3 stories high. The
rooms were around 6x8 ft. No one know why they lived in these cliff
dwellings...was it for safety from enemies? They left in 1400 AD.

See the rock on the face of these cliffs, this is where they would
cut into the rock and make their homes! I can't imagine living on a
cliff, raising babies and living inside a rock mountain all winter long!

This was a little town right off the freeway that we stopped into
one night to stay, The next morning I went for a walk all around
the town. It was filled with the neatest homes!

I loved this big old mansion...it would make a great B&B.

An old church turned into someones home.

Cute little cottage homes with picket fences.

I loved these old carriages in this yard.

Just so cute!...I love cottage homes!

This beautiful, peaceful river runs right through town.

I loved this tree house in a front yard.

This cute little hid-a-way was an antique shop.

In this old building was the best bakery ever! The cinnamon
roll I ordered was as light as a feather and so Heavenly good!

This painting was there...loved it cause I do love those Roos!

Another big old mansion in town...so amazing!

The drive over the mountain pass to the town above was
so very beautiful! The leaves were still on the trees and in
full color...it was gorgeous at every bend of the road!

As we drove on this mountain pass...my eyes caught something
along side the road but back in the trees. I had my hubbie turn
the car around and we went back and found a very old cemetery!
This little grave stone was nestled in 3 big old trees, it was a little
girls grave, her name was Nettie and she had died as a little child.

I felt like we were on sacred ground..and we were.
These were someones loved ones, their family. This
old grave sits in the middle of big old mountains where
families lived together, trying to make a living in the mines.

It was so quiet...so cold with some snow on the ground.
We walked all over, reading the headstones, most of the
dates were in the 1800's!

Gorgeous iron gates surrounding graves, someones loved ones.

A beautiful mountain lake with come cabins here.

These gorgeous mountains in Colorado...so high...so magnifient!

We went into the mountain town and ski resort of Telluride.
There were beautiful dogs everywhere...I loved these babies!

It was sunny and cold...we walked the streets looking into
the shops then popped into a pizza place for the best pizza
I have ever had! Maybe it tasted so good because we were
so hunger and cold, but it was so good!

This sweetheart was tied up and waiting for her owner
that had gone into a shop. I always have to stop and talk
to all the animals you know!

Well, this was part 2...part three will be next!
Have a great week dear friends...sending you my love!

JULIE