Saturday we had another great day. We started the day by visiting the Garden of the gods. What a beautiful place!
This is a view of several of the formations near the visitor center.
We had just started looking around when we saw this bighorn sheep way up high. If you look closely you can see 6 others further down on the rocks, 5 are on the right and one is on the left.
There were several people climbing while we were there. It doesn't look like anything I would ever try!
More beautiful formations.
This is called the balancing rock. It doesn't look like it should stay there!
Here are a couple of cute guys I found in the park!
After we left the Garden of the gods, we visited the Manitou Cliff Dwellings.
This young man is a descendant of the original cliff dwellers. He did several of the dances from that time, which were quite interesting.
We were able to go into the actual dwellings and look around. We were surprised by how cool it was inside, when it was very warm outside. These dwellings were quite small for many people to be living in.
Here is a picture of the Cliff Dwellers homes, built right into the rock of the cliff. I'm glad someone had the foresight to preserve them!That's it for today - more coming tomorrow!
