"Cage the badger and he will try to break from his prison and regain his native hole. Chain the eagle to the ground - he will strive to gain his freedom, and though he fails, he will lift his head and look up at the sky which is home - and we want to return to our mountains and plains, where we used to plant corn, wheat and beans."


-- Written by a Navajo in 1865


Thursday, May 26, 2011

Im From London

Day two.
Yesterday took basically TWELVE hours of traveling. It was crazy. The first plane ride took forever, yet the second one was barely an hour.  The two hour time change is kinda weird getting used to, and so is the high altitude. I thought i was incredibly out of shape from eating tacos and burritos and chips, but im just gonna say that it was the altitude. Last night was the first night, and it went pretty well. I was up at 4 in the morning, and then at 6 but thats just because im still on East coast time. Ive been freakishly early for everything. This morning we went to a museum which was pretty cool. We had lunch at the museum, then from there took the bus for an hour up to Santa Fe. I kinda enjoy the bus rides. The people on the unit make it really fun. I dont think i have laughed so much. We arrived in Santa Fe, and we were shopping for a looonnngggg time. I bought a lot of jewelry and it was really cool seeing all of the different stuff that the people had created.
The other thing thats pretty cool is that all of the artists are required to put their initials on their work  in order to sell it in that Governor's Palace. 
 After we checked into the hotel, then we had an hour to relax before heading out for dinner. I had the most AMAZING mud pie ever. it was literally a block of fudge. From the restaurant we came back to the hotel. We then decided to go play outside.  We made a baseball bat out of two foam swords that the boys had bought. we tied them together with hairties and a towel....
we called it the "ghetto bat" 
it was great until mr hodgsons epic through went over my head( i kinda ducked so i just gave up on trying to catch it) and then the ball mysteriously disappeared. we had no idea where it went. we think it went under the car and got stuck. So that seriously sucked. Since that ended that fun, we went into the lobby and everyone in our group played cards for nearly an hour.
Tomorrow we are going back to the plaza, and then to a few museums and we are also having a demonstration  on weaving which seems pretty cool.

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