Sedona

My parents came to visit last weekend and it was so good to see them! Between eating lots of sweets, watching Celtics and Suns games, the highlight of the weekend was a trip up to Sedona. Ever since I went through Sedona the first time, I knew my parents would love it and I was right! We did some shopping in town, but what I really loved was checking out a few native american historic sites. Our first stop was Montezuma Well.

It was really cool, its a natural well where some native american tribes lived several hundred years ago. At this site, you can still see lots of cliff dwellings. Here are my parents looking down into the well.
My parents looking out over the well. Their was a path down that led you down past more dwellings and up close to the well.
This is up close to one of the dwellings. Its hard to see from the picture, but this "doorway" leads into a very large living space.

The cool part of the site was how close you could get to everything.

Adam my mom and I at the bottom of the well.

Here Adam is checking out the "drain" of the well. This water goes out of this spot at a rate of 600 lbs a day! The ancient residents of this area built a 1 mile ditch to irrigate their crops and it still works and thrives today! It was nearly overflowing when we were there.

Every time I turned around, my mom was climbing on something!

Yep, as soon as I walked away, turned back around, my mom was halfway up this tree.

The other place visted was V Bar. This site was sooo cool! It's a cliff covered in about 1,000 petroglyphs. They have someone on site that tells you all about them and what they know about some of the symbols.

One of the walls of the site was used for their Calendar. There were special rocks that allowed shadows to be casts on the sides of the rock and when the shadows hit a certain spot on the wall they would know when to plant, harvest etc. It was soooo cool!
I highly recommend a visit to this site. V Bar and Montezuma Well are only a few miles from each other. It doesn't cost anything, all you need is the Red Rocks Pass for your car (Montezuma Well is Free!)