Meteor Crater to Sky City

Meteor Crater

We went to Meteor Crater which was only about 5 miles from the RV Park.  It was pretty amazing.  All in all it was just a big hole in the ground and a lot of speculation about how it was created.  The idea that a meteor could come into the earth’s atmosphere at 11 miles per second seems unreal!  We watched a movie about the impact and it said that it took 10 seconds to create the crater; just ten seconds! It also talked about how when the first person said it was a meteor no one would support him so they said it was a vapor blast from a volcano only to later find out that there was no volcanic rock anywhere near the crater!

Daddy at Meteor Crater

We spent a good amount of time just wandering around the museum, and Daddy and I went down to a couple different look out points while Maw-maw watched us from a telescope!  We bought a couple t-shirts and flattened some pennies at the gift shop.  There were suckers with bugs in them and I kept trying to get Maw-maw to buy one to eat but she said, “Ohhh no.”   Before we left Maw-maw and I got our hand stamped, just in case we wanted to come back.  Now were on the road to Albuquerque, NM.  We were going to head to Roswell but I don’t think we will make it there tonight, but who knows!  12:19pm

Stamp to get back in ;]

I don’t know if you all could tell or not… but we are all having a blast!  Maw-maw gets really excited at all the different places we go and we always have to stop at the gift shops so we have something special to remember our trips!  For when pictures just aren’t enough. :]

There is a lot of dessert driving through New Mexico.  We were going to drive all the way to Roswell but we decided that it was just too far so we are stopped in Sky City for the Night.