Day 15

On the fifteenth day my family woke up and we had pancakes for breakfast. After that me and all my siblings played in the dirt and made bows out of sticks and bungee cords. It was pretty fun but the arrows wouldn’t shoot very far. In Bandolier there were more trees than in any other desert I went to. Then we got in the car and drove to Chaco canyon. When we got there we went to the visitor center and we went to see the ruins which were 1,200 years old. The ruins were made out of sandstone brick that were stacked up and they put gluey stuff called mortar in between them. The pueblo was planned and orderly. They had big circle-shaped holes in the center called kivas that they used as churches. There were grinding stones in some rooms, where people would grind their food. Some rooms were for living in. Some in the middle on the bottom were for storage as they were cold and dark. They had small doors that were rectangle shaped and they were only about three feet tall. We found one door which was T shaped and it was used in sacred places. There were 600 rooms in pueblo bonito and only 100 of them were used for living. My mom told me that they used many of the rooms as hotels for people who traveled there.

Then we came back to our campsite and played in the sand for hours. We made a sand fortress with our bucket and we turned rocks into dust by smashing them and also by grinding them to powder.