Dià Tres: ¡OLÁ! Bandelier National Park and Bradbury Science Museum

Bom Dia! Good Morning! Comó via? How are you?

 My day started by a blessing and the great spirit of Nature’s Beauty because we went to Bandelier National Park. Iit was showering rain for a while, and then Deus (GOD) has blessed me with sunshine of light and warmth to the earthly ground and mother’s nature of Bandelier National Park… It beholds nature’s beauty and shows magnificent stories behind the Ancestral Pueblo People.

Going to trail #2 - Put your mind into that you were living in Bandelier 500 years ago. There were houses along the base of the cliffs and the bottom of the canyon. You would see gardens of corn, beans, and squash. Some were down here. Some were on top of the mesas. The only tame animals were dogs and turkeys. There weren’t any horses, cows, sheep, chickens, or goats. IF this was a sunny spring day, you probably would be helping in the garden. You could pull the weeds. You could bring water from the creek to help your crops grow. If this was a day in the fall, you would help with harvesting the crops. Then you would put them on the roof of your house to dry. You would store them carefully. That way you and your family would have food to eat all through the long, cold winter. GIRLS would grind corn into cornmeal to make nourishing meals. BOYS would learn to be good hunters. They wanted to bring home meat for their families.The men taught them to be respectful to the animals they hunted. Everyone helped out and worked together. I can imagine myself in their shoes, how about you?

The Big Kiva: trail #4- This is a very special room called a kiva (Kee-vah). It was a place for meetings and ceremonies. In the winter there was storytelling. Many pueblo people today still use kivas. To get inside you walked across the flat mud roof and went down a wooden ladder. There could be a fire for light and heat. Fresh air came through the ventilator shaft that looks like a chimney. This is my favorite place because it was about gathering together and telling stories, that what life has brings to hear their stories of their ancestors.

Bandelier National Park was a great experience for me because I have learned a lot from the Great spirit of the Ancestral Pueblo. I really like to visit this national park with my family when I’m grown older and still moving around. I really inspired by the native American ancestral pueblo‘s poem saying: “Oh little mother from the Earth and Oh little Father of the sky.”  The whole poem made me shed a tear.

I really love this National Park: Bandelier, it’s like I could be one of the tribe, who knows. I have to do some research on my own to see if its true that I have Native American Indians in my genes on my mother’s side of the family tree. Like I said, Who knows? Only God knows. The Great spirit of within you and me and he has given a gift of creativity. He even knows you and me before he create the heavens and the earth and everything you and I can imagine so therefore we have to be grateful to the Higher and Greatest Spirit of Within.

Then we went to Bradbury Science Museum and learned a lot about more historic facts about the atomic bombs called the LITTLE BOY and the FAT MAN. We went to see a movie that basically talks about the W.W. (WORLD WAR) II, Manhattan Projects and Los Alamos from 1942-1945. it was a 16 minute film. It was fantastic and a learning experience to me.

Then we all went home to type and went to sleep too so we don’t have to feel brutal in the morning and the whole day. Until next time, we are still on our way to the next day of NEW MEXICO and looking for a beautiful day for that day!