Today my body was full of energy. We hiked in two cliff dwellings. In the first cliff dwelling we did not get to go inside of it. The first one was called Cliff Palace. In Cliff Palace it was an hour long tour with 46 other people. We saw kivas and we saw the paintings inside one of the buildings.
The second was really cool. The name of it was Balcony House. You started off by walking .2 miles. And then we reached a 32 foot ladder. After the climbed up this tall ladder we saw more kivas. We got to look inside a lot of rooms. And the ranger told us all about the rooms and what they thought the room was used for. They think the room was used for a dance plaza. Then we went through a tight squeeze into the room next door. In that room we saw kivas and then we went through a tunnel. They think it was for keeping enemies away. It was about 18 inches wide and 24 inches high. After the tunnel we hiked up some more ladders. One was actually inside the tunnel. And then we had a short hike back to the car with a few ladders.
We drove for about an hour to the visitors center. In that time I was supposed to be writing my blog post. But I found a way out of it by taking a nap. Then we went to the visitors center and we became Junior Rangers for the ninth time. We drove back to the hotel. We went out to dinner at a Thai restaurant. I had chicken, pineapple, cashews, and rice. After dinner we had the world’s best ice cream. I got a dark chocolate cherry ice cream.
