natural slide cut into the rocks. It was great fun, but the water was freezing, so Hel wasn’t so keen! The rest of the park was quite nice tough, so we had a lovely picnic that Kamen had made for us, and saw two snakes - one big one and one very tiny, but very colourful one!! Once Sean had finished his night shifts he took us out in his truck for “nice walk that he knew”. Turns out he didn’t know it too well as we didn’t even find the start of it - he never was so great with directions!! Still, we were up a hill with great views over the valley, and we did manage to find a small nature trail before we all decided that a visit to the local all you can eat Chinese and Sushi buffet was much more likely to be a successful endeavour!! And so it was, I in particular ate a tremendous amount of food and felt pretty bloated!! These all you can eat restaurants which are so common in the USA have meant that I have put on weight for the first time in ages!! So we kind of staggered round Tuzigoot National

Monument, an old Indian Pueblo (settlement) built about a thousand years ago. This area of Arizona was heavily populated by Sinagua Indians until the 15th Century, when for reasons unknown, they just upped and left - a compete mystery!!

We’d managed to get everything sorted for Canada, we’d decided to stay in Calgary for a week before meeting Russ & Ruth, and we’d started looking into our South America plans. Sean had another three night shifts to do so we figured we’d give them a break and go to Flagstaff for a few nights.

We’d booked into a hostel in Flagstaff for the great price of $34 for a double room, so we weren’t exactly sure what to expect. Is was a great place though, used to be a motel so we had the bonus of an ensuite room and the place had great kitchen facilities