Today is the 21st of May!
Today we went to a Navajo trading post in Navajo. No it is not for trading things, it is for buying things! We got something for Rylee, And it said what the word means!
After that we went to a museum but..... IT WAS CLOSED ON US! So rude. We learnt that the Native Indian people are the indigenous people of America, and they got a very bad deal from the treaties they signed with the white people. Navajo nation is a special area in the country where land and government has been given back to the Indian people, and they have their own justice system and everything. I loved the wooden hut in the picture below, and would like to live in it if it didn't have a dirt floor! Indians love horses and farming, and are very good at arts and crafts. I liked getting to see an artist painting on pottery with a traditional paint paste.
Then we got back in the rental car and drove to the south rim of the grand canyon!
IT WAS CRAZY! Here are some photos! The grand canyon is hundreds of millions of years old, and has the Colorado River running through it. We also saw the Hoover Dam, but that was not very exciting. Its hard to get an idea of how HUGE the Grand Canyon is from looking at a picture. It was very windy, and we were worried that we would get blown off the edge, but it was still nice to sit and eat our lunch near the edge with that amazing view! We also visited a stone tower which was built in 1933 by a woman architect - that was a big deal for a woman to do that job back then, and the tower was beautiful, filled with Indian art on the walls and a skinny spiral staircase up four levels to the roof.
Then we got back in the rental car and it is a six seater because we had six people.. DUH
Then we drove to SAN DIEGO!
that was a 8 hour drive but because of we had stops it is 9!
When we got to the hotel they sold the rooms to other people!
So we had to go to another hotel!
BYEE!!
A teacher won and the very very sad thing is, is that all the kids from her class were watching it when it blew up!! This is the teacher ------------>
STOP WAIT, we also went on a simulator of a take off and that was cool!!! Then we went down below the Atlantis. There was a slide there of how to get off the Atlantis!Jesse and I went down the slide lots of times! We leant lots about how the technology had to be developed for the space shuttle programme, and how many of our modern technologies have come from NASA (like cellphones, contact lenses, and long-life food). Now they are working on new technology to get astronauts to Mars - we saw the family of Rover vehicles that are on Mars now doing research, and the next exciting thing will be for people to go to Mars (they aim to do it by 2018, and when they go it will take a year of travel to get there - would you go to Mars?) There are SO many people involved in getting a space shuttle launched, thousands and thousands of workers, and we found out that you can have a career at Nasa if you are a smart thinker, and can come up with unusual and different ways to solve problems. Turns out maths is very important!