Colorado

We started friday way earlier than we thought, who would have guessed we wake up at 6 in the morning after we went to bed by midnight?
 Anyways, on our way towards Colorado we stopped at the Antelope House Overlook where we found two cicadas stitting in a tree. Caroline was able to hold one on her hand while it was still buzzing. John has got a photo of it on his Blog .  From the right angle the cicadas wings reflected the sunlight and glittered in many different colours.

 The overview of Canyon de Chelly from the Antelope House Overview is pretty spectacular.From far away we could hear cows mooing and it took us a while to identify the sounds as moos.
On our way through to Colorado we came across Shiprock, the remains of a 27 million year old volcano.
As I tend to get both motion sick and sleepy on long drives we took a lot of little stops to strech our legs, do a couple starjumps and take a few photos like this one of 'Sleeping Ute'.

 My first time in Colorado! Unfortunately there were a lot of bullet holes and graffiti on all the New Mexico signs so we didn't want to take any pictures of these...
The landscape of Colorado is quite different to the desert in Arizona and New Mexico. Snowy mountains, rivers and forests as far as you can see. I really liked that the temperature is a little cooler than Arizona.

 Later we decided not to stop for dinner but directly drive to Durango and eat there. It turned out to be a good idea as the sun went down pretty quick and we had to drive along a very steep canyon on a street that had no barriers on the side. Eek! All three of us are afraid of heights! We made it safe to Durango and had dinner at an Himalayan restaurant. 

That was a long day and we went to sleep very quick.

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