Some Pictures from the Great Sand Dunes

Day 4, the Great Sand Dunes National Park and home.

Everybody enjoyed our last day together, the science experiment at the Great Sand Dunes and climbing the dunes. It was a grand adventure for everybody and we were all a little sad to return home.

Playing Games

Swim Party at the Alamosa Holiday Inn

Standing in front of the Big Mill's Water Wheel

Class is in Session - a One room school house circa 1870's

Thursday May 5, 2011 - Day 3

Today found us leaving the Glorieta Conference Center and heading south a bit further to El Rancho de Las Golondrinas (the ranch of the swallows) and Spanish Colonial Days where we learned about candle making, clothes washing and corn-grinding, all of which were children's jobs on the ranch in the 18th century. We also saw demonstrations of wool-dyeing, rope making, got to make some music and visit a one-room school house from the 1870's, a home from the 1870's that was used in the making of several movies including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

As the afternoon progressed, we traveled north, returning to Colorado where we had dinner at Chili's in Alamosa and checked into our lodging at the Holiday Inn Alamosa. After dinner, the kids had a chance to swim and play board games before calling it a day and heading for bed.

See you all tomorrow at KLES after we stop off at the Great Sand Dunes.

Lunch on the Plaza

Lighting candles in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

Santa Fe Old Town Plaza

Today was spent in Santa Fe where the kids did walking tours around the area of the Old Town Plaza, touring museums, churches, cathedrals and mostly shopping! We split up into two groups, headed by our three chaperone's and the 6th grade teachers.

Before lunch, the Chaperone's group visited the Loretto Chapel to see its miraculous staircase, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum while the teacher lead group shopped - or so I was told.

After a sack lunch in the Plaza, the groups switched off with the Chaperone's group shopping and finishing off by touring the New Mexico History Museum in the Palace of the Governors. The teacher group went to the Loretto Chapel and other museums.

Both groups returned to the Glorieta Conference Center for dinner and recreational activities.

Arrive at Glorieta at Dinner Time

Arrival at Glorieta was at 6:30 pm. First order of business is dinner!

We arrive at the Harwood Museum in Taos, NM and the kid's are ingaged in learning about art! They even learned print making!

Our Adsventure Begins!

Ready to roll! The bus is loaded and we're off! Our first stop is lunch in Walsenburg, CO.