Friday, August 8, 2008

Places We'll Miss

We finally made it to Lowell Observatory last night for their evening program. We saw a couple of movies and we went on a tour of the Pluto telescope, but it was still too cloudy to look through the telescope. Tonight is our last night in Flagstaff, so if it clears up, we'll be at the Observatory again this evening. Wish us luck!

There are a lot of things and places we'll miss when we leave tomorrow. We've named a lot of our favorite places we see every day on our hikes (these are not their official names). These are the Sand Cliffs. The kids thoroughly explored this area many times.


The kids named this "Grasshopper Marsh" which doesn't make much sense unless you look a little closer . . .


And see a lot of these little guys all over the place.


We've talked about this place before: Cairn Garden (my favorite name, for obvious reasons).


I think we'll be able to take one more hike tomorrow to take a last look at all of our favorite places. We're hoping to bring friends for hikes at Pumphouse Wash Trail soon, too.

3 comments:

Jaybie said...

It will be a bit sad to leave here.
It's been pretty nice.

Schmutz said...

Yes, it's always sad to leave a place you have had fun at. I have vicariously enjoyed your three weeks, too. My favorite place was the Cairn Garden, too. But my second favorite place was Sunset Crater. Perhaps you will all get a chance to see and live all the fun again.

Unknown said...

I'll be sad to not have your blogs to turn to for the cheery little stories. Your blog is about the only way I could have ever keep up with all that you have done. Thanks for sharing your wonderful summer.