the Southwest like woah

1. Navajo etched pottery
2. 800-year-old Ancestral Puebloan ruins
3. black widow
4. valedictorian
5. John Wayne
6. big rocks
7. Angel’s Landing
8. Kachina dance
9. the Navajo Nation
10. 105+
11. hoodoos
12. dust
13. hydration backpacks
14. 2200 miles
15. El Tovar
16. red

strange items

• iguana leash
• carabiner, w/built-in watch
• pen, shaped like Saruman’s staff
• stress ball, pink, squishy, w/smiley face
• box, cardboard, 6″ x 8″ x 3″, containing rocks
• cup, styrofoam, 2″ high (original height before 2000′ submergence: ~6″)
• glide ball, w/astronaut image
• diploma, Bachelor of Arts

the holy crap itinerary

1. Las Vegas
2. Zion National Park
3. Grand Canyon – North Rim
   1. Hope it doesn’t catch fire again
4. Lake Powell / Antelope Slot Canyon
5. Monument Valley
6. Durango / Four Corners
   1. rafting!
7. Mesa Verde
   1. ruins!
8. Canyon de Chelley
   1. petroglyphs!
9. Cameron
10. Grand Canyon – South Rim
11. Bryce Canyon
12. Vegas and out!

stats from yesterday

1. Predicted extra-familial birthday wishes: 2 (possibly 3)
2. Actual extra-familial birthday wishes: 7
3. Correct predictions: 1
4. Angel-food cakes: 1
5. Star Wars viewings: 0

this one’s for the kid in the back

1. fourteen
2. eighty-seven
3. twenty-two
4. five hundred thirty nine
5. ‘Course it’s Pete–look at ‘im!
6. there goes the neighborhood