Stone Age to Space Age !!

Yesterday, on our way to the Grand Canyon, we stumbled on a little pearl in the desert....Bedrock !  Yep, the Yabba Dabba Doo one !  Check it out !

Today, we took a drive into Flagstaff to see the Lowell Observatory.  It was extremely windy and it was not comfortable being on a mountain top but the lady that gave us our tour was absolutely passionate about astronomy and she made it all worth it, plus we learned a thing or two ! 

Lowell is the man who built the telescope that is in the first picture and this telescope was a intregal part of NASA's space program and is actually still used today. 

We each got to look through this special telescope at noon to see the surface of the sun...WOW !  Did you know that the suns surface is like an orange and it has spots, which are actually places that have a cooler temperature than the rest of the surface.  It was pretty awesome to be looking at the sun so close up.  This is Joe taking his turn.



So, another really good day for us....we expect the wind to die down tonight so that we can have a more pleasant day tomorrow.  We are doing so many different things on our trip....we are enjoying every day and every night we go to bed so thankful ! xxoo TML