Montezuma's Castle

After we wrapped up at Slide rock, we headed back to camp for dinner. Unfortunately, Aaron and I were in charge of dinner and we left the cooler in the fridge at home. Major fail. We bought some pizza and had that instead. 

After the kids went to bed, we got to enjoy some star gazing, citadels (I totally won for the record), and watching Lakin get mauled by large beetles that were attracted to our lantern. 

We woke up to the lovely sight of Robb making us blueberry pancakes. They followed through on their meal assignment much better than we did!

Nature's kitchen

Lakin and Alice snuggling for warmth. We Arizonans don't deal well with anything colder than 60.

 On our drive back, we stopped at Montezuma's Castle. It is an Adobe Native American structure built between 1100-1400, when it was mysteriously abandoned. It is 5 stories tall in some places, and the surrounding cliffs are full of caves that groups lived in.

So impressive

We were all exceptionally sweaty, which provided a nice juxtaposition for our freezing morning.

Colby and Alice doing the Jr Ranger scavenger hunt.We almost had a catastrophe when we couldn't find a squirrel before leaving the park. Fortunately Colby "saw" one right before we got to the exit.