I am a slacker of the first degree

July 14, 2011

I am a slacker of the first degree

Hello friends.

We left Utah nearly four weeks ago and drove across the country and I've been a complete bum and not blogged even ONCE! I have no excuse--the last few weeks, I sat around pretty much every day and played Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility for hours and hours and hours (what can I say, the farming life is very relaxing!). (also, does it make you crazy trying to figure out what to do when you have a parenthetical sentence at the end of another sentence and both of them require their own punctuation so you end up with something like !). --that at the end? yeah. it makes me crazy.)

Anyways. No excuse.

So! A few updates, which will take up the next few posts. Let's start at the beginning!

When we drove across the US, we took a southern-ish route from Provo down through the corner of Colorado, then through the northeast corner of New Mexico, through the top of Texas, and then straight through Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee until we dropped down into North Carolina! It was very interesting to come down out of the the mountains across the dry dry desert and across the country as it gradually got moister and greener! The trip was quite long and mildly tedious, but we did have books to read (thanks Landon and Kylie!) and along with way we made at least one awesome stop!

This is Mesa Verde, Colorado, also know as the ancient adobe cliff dwellings of the Anasazi people. And yes, it was as cool as it looks! The one above is a smaller dwelling called the Spruce Tree House, and the one below is called the Cliff Palace.

(not pictured: the extremely narrow rock stairways we had to climb down to this point and to come back up from the dwellings!)

I think Jesse enjoyed himself :)

As did I! In part because that blonde lady right behind me and her family were German--I just walked really close to them the whole time and practiced trying to understand German! Loads of fun :)