Fun in the Arizona Sun

We have been enjoying our time with our friends Josh and Heidi. They are missionaries with NTM as well and are planning on heading to Mongolia the middle of next year. They are staying with Heidi's grandmother until then, and it has been a relaxing time with them.

Went to see some pretty cool sites today. A place called Montezuma's Castle. As we were heading there I was trying to figure out why it was called by the Aztec Chief's name, but I guess that when it was first seen by white settlers they thought it was part of his culture. It wasn't, but the name stuck anyway.

I love finding out about ancient cultures and things like that. If I had time in this life to do many things I would like to be an archaeologist. Searching for and finding places that have been built hundreds of years ago and trying to figure out what the people were like and how they lived. I find that fascinating. I wanted so bad to get into the castle, but that is only for cool people I guess... About 60 years ago anyone could go into it and the grandmother was able to back then...
Lucky...
One picture to show you how high and far away the castle is.

And then here is a close up of the castle. Crazy to think that about 600 years ago there was a group of people that was here and used this place to live out their lives!


The only things that live on the cliffs now...birds.

After we went there we went to Montezuma's well. A hole in the ground that 1.5 million gallons of water pump out of every day! All year long the temperature stays exactly 76 degrees. Crazy! An amazing amount of water pumping out into the middle of a desert!
But for some reason I can't post anymore pictures on this post....So I will post some of those later.