4 Wheels 4 Girls

Thursday, April 6, we visited the Sky City Pueblo. The Sky City is the coolest Pueblo I’ve ever seen, and it’s located on the very top of a 374 foot tall mesa. The Acoma people still live in this amazing town today. You might think the Acoma people just live up there part time, only so people can say it’s the oldest continually inhabited city in the USA. But no, people still live there, even a few kids, and I met quite a few men and women selling jewelry and clay pots with beautiful paintings and designs on them. Here’s a picture of an Acoma woman’s amazing pots. She was selling them on the top of the mesa, right outside her house.

Here's the pots. Aren't they beautiful?

Our tour-guide, Gary, who was an awesome tour-guide, by the way, lead us all around Sky City. As we walked around, we stopped at a man’s little sale set-up. Gary said, “Look at his great bluebirds!” And that attracted our attention. Well, I would have looked at them anyway, but these bluebirds were so cute! I stared at the four sizes of bluebirds, the biggest ones, about the size of golfballs, were five dollars, the next size down, four dollars, next size, three, and the smallest, which I thought were the cutest, were two dollars. I kept eyeing the tiny bluebirds and thought about asking Jean if I could get one, and I finally asked. Guess what she said? No. So I asked again. She still said no. Then Ellie said, “Please momma can we get one?” And I said, “Just the little ones? Please, can we each get a little one? There’s four! And they’re only two dollars!” She still said no. But I couldn’t let her say no! They were so cute and I felt bad looking at the man’s artwork without buying anything. During all this, the man was listening and could tell we really loved them. I couldn’t believe what he did next. He picked up the four little bluebirds and handed one to each of us! Oh my gosh, I wanted to give him something in return really bad! He was basically giving us eight dollars! Actually, more! With all the hard work he put into all those adorable birds, I think they were worth at least twelve dollars, at least I think. I didn’t know the man’s name, so I couldn’t name my bluebird that, so I named him after the tribe he came from, the Acoma tribe.

This is Acoma! Isn't he so cute?!

As we finished our tour, Gary gave us a choice:
Take the bus back down
Or walk back down
You might think I’m joking, but I am being completely serious. Look at the pictures in my sisters’ posts to see that I’m not lying.
We made it back to the RV with all six people, my bluebird, Acoma, Ellie, Ana, and Greta’s bluebirds, a bag of four cookies, and six pies!!!
Even though it was rainy, we had a great day at Sky City.