4 Wheels 4 Girls

On April 7, we went to the Acoma Sky City Pueblo, on top of a mesa. It is called the Sky City because it is so close to the sky.

Look close, and you can see some square buildings along the top of the mesa. The path up to the top is a dark line on the right side.

Mesa means table, in Spanish.

I met a guy. His name was gary. He was very very funny. He was our tour guide to the Acoma city on the top of a mesa. It was very fun.

The Acoma people in Sky City were trading pottery. Much of the pottery was handmade, and I wondered how they made it. On the pottery there were different animals that meant different things. I think the bunny meant that everyone was happy. Or the dog. The lizard was for the lizard clan, which is not around anymore. I got some pottery. I got a blue bird. Their art was very amazing.

I learned a lot from Gary about the Acoma people. I learned that the women own the houses. If a woman divorces her husband, she takes his clothes and saddle and sets them outside the door.

Gary told us about a race a long long time ago. There was a woman with a pot of water on her head and a man with a sheep on his back. They raced down from the top of the mesa, along one of the steep, rocky paths, and the man tripped and fell on the woman and they both fell and died. The Acoma people believe the man and the woman are still racing together on the path.

I learned that the Acoma had ovens. They looked like igloos sitting outside the buildings. The Acoma use the ovens to bake bread and cook corn. Not everybody had an oven, so they had to use other peoples ovens. They would pay with part of what they cooked in the oven.

It was very windy and sandy up on the mesa. Sand flew in my face. It was still fun. We walked down from the mesa. It was cool and amazing going down. Also, I was scared, but that didn’t ruin it. It was still cool.

Now I am sleeping at a campgroud. I am really writing in my journal. It might be confusing.