The Nelsons, Erin and Aaron and Wind

Saturday: Last night we met [The Nelson Family] at Homolovi Camp. It is warm, sunny and windy. The wind died down and we were able to have a nice, leisurely dinner with the moths. They brought amazing goodies for dinner, complete with drinks! Phoebe and Izzy bonded over their American Girl Dolls, the boys played Lacrosse and helped out with dinner and Victoria "check out" with the Nintendo in the car.

We went to bed late, but got to sleep without the fly on the tent. The stars were amazing.

We woke to nice, warm weather. The camp had a shower so I hope that the girls can be refreshed, as I was. We had leftover steak hash, pancakes with bacon and fruit.

We found cool pottery shards at the Homolovi site.

We visited La Posada Hotel, which was awesome. Beautiful flowering grounds and art and furniture overflowing. We met Erin and Aaron there.

We headed over to a Root Beer Float and Burger joint to catch some lunch. Quite literally, with all the wind there was! Then fun begins. On the way to Meteor Crater, the tire on Erins truck blew! Their jack broke, ours didn't "fit", Nelsons is inaccessible, but the nice officer that is on the scene should be able to help...and he did!

Meteor Crater turned out to be too expensive, so we all opted out. We popped over to the Homolovi 2 site, which was cool too. The Nelson's and Izzy took off quickly because Cyrus was very bummed about the news from his baseball tryouts - presumably - and wasn't in the mood to look at Ruins. The site had a room excavated and more wonderful artifacts. Erin found carbonized corn and corn cob. Victoria and I walked down a path and saw hoof prints and a lizard, who was quite amenable to closeness of humans.

We went back to camp and the Nelsons made a yummy, easy dinner while we hung out and B.S.ed - and drank.Upon return from the ruins, we both found our tents blown over from the incredible wind and theirs ripped. Erin and Aaron rook off around dusk, knowing they had a long drive home. We stayed up pretty late, sitting around the fire. Time returned a call Liz had made to inquire about Andy's wedding. We all chatted with Andy and wished them well on their day.

The four of us saw a few satellites, shooting stars and amazing star gazing from our tent. The girls fell asleep quickly, as it was exhausting in the wind and heat. John and I chatted about stars and bonded about the desert sky.