Wednesday, Our last day in Arizona

Enjoying In and Out Burger. Wish you were here Mr. Maimone:)

We met Dr. Phil Christensen, Head Mars Scientist at ASU. He let us touch a piece of Mars!!

Good bye Lisa, our super bus driver got us all over Arizona.

Look out Mrs. Ferguson, Wild Bill is looking for you.

Tuesday!

A humming bird at the botanical garden.

The picture says it all!

Tyler and Ryan working at ASU.

Zach and Dorian supported by Flat Stanley!!

Drake and Tom

Ross and Tim

Juliana and Christine

Pat and Brandon

Tom makes a new friend!!

Just hanging around!

We've discovered a new species??!!

Leave me alone, I'm working on my tan!

A desert jackrabbit.

Flat Stanely joins the group!

Flat Stanley joins Westhill Mars Mission.  Notice his badge.... it's official now!!!

Stanley visits Mars and meets Spirit, the Mars rover which landed on Mars in 2004.  Spirit was designed for a 90 day mission, but has been roving Mars for the past 7 years.

  

Flat Stanley pulls a Mr. Bill..... OH NOOOOOO!!!!!  He is stuck to a saguaro cactus, a species native to southern Arizona.

Monday

Monday's Travels to Hole in the Rock Park!!!!!!!!

 Entering into the park.

 Overlooking, the hole.

 Climbing

 Sitting in the hole.

 Overlooking the city from the Hole in the Rock.

 Ross

 Tyler watching over the city.

 Van Ornam's and their Uncle Blair.

 Tim and Dorian

 Watching the sun set.

Great View!!!

Sunday

 Sunset Crater lava flows.  Like sand in your shoes.  Oh great:)

 Pat looking down from the Lenox Crater.  7529 ft above sea level.

He's flying!!!

 Flat Stanley atop Lenox Crater, a cinder cone volcano.  Cinder cone volcanoes are formed when lava of a high viscosity erupts from the earth and cools in the air as small "cinders" before falling to the ground.  These cinders pile up at the base of the eruption site and form a cinder cone volcano.

 Pat holding a log.  His "club"?????

 Mr. Heath's long lost brother educating us on Sunset Crater.

 Sunset Crater

 Ruins of the Wupatki Tribe.

 Dorian having his hair blown around by the blow hole at the Wupatki site.  See Mrs. Ferguson for more details in class:)

 Look in his glasses and you can see the vent that the cool breeze is coming from.  More actual pictures of Tom's to be added Monday.

 Our friend the rattlesnake.  Almost got Zach, but had it for dinner after Pat hit it with his club.

 The sassy cow.

 Phoenix, AZ

 All on Lenox Crater

 Cinders spread across the trail from the Cinder Cone Volcano.

Saturday

Flat Stanley visits the Grand Canyon!  The Colorado river began carving the Grand Canyon around 17 million years ago.  Today the canyon is 277 miles long and about one mile deep!

Flat Stanley at Meteor Crater.  Did you know that Meteor Crater was formed 50,000 years ago when a meteorite approximately 162 feet across slammed into the high desert of Arizona?  The crater itself has a diameter of 4,000 feet.  This is possible thanks to the high speed at which the meteorite impacted the Earth as well as the meteorite's high density.

Painted Desert

more Painted Desert

Petrified Forest

Gecko we saw at Meteor Crater