Wednesday, July 12, 2006 – Anasazi State Park, Utah Today we drove to Anasazi State Park on Route 12. At the Anasazi State Park, there is a museum with exhibits about the Anasazi culture. The archaeologists refer to the village dwelling farmers who existed in the southern Colorado Plateau of the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Nevada between A.D. 1 and 1300 as Anasazi. Behind the museum, archaeologists had dug and uncovered ruins. Because Bob believes that his class will be studying the Native American Indian, he took many pictures of the exhibits and ruins. When we returned to Torrey, we ate lunch at Sunglow Family Restaurant, which is famous for pinto bean pie and pickle pie. Bob and Susan shared a slice of pinto bean pie after a lunch of bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. After lunch, we returned to the campground. It was such a beautiful day that Susan decided to sit outside under a tree and read. She started reading The Fluent Reader by Timothy Rasinski. Bob looked at campers online. Since we have had a difficult time driving up the mountains with our little Ford Explorer pulling our trailer, we have discussed other possibilities. When we drove into Torrey the first day that we arrived, Bob noticed a police car parked across from the general store. He noticed that a dummy dressed as a policeman was sitting in the driver’s seat. The dummy had a long handlebar mustache. When we drove by the general store every day, the police car would be sitting there with the dummy inside the car. We thought that it would be funny to give the dummy a shave some night. |