We made it to the Crater! Ever since moving here, seeing the huge Meteor Crater out in the desert has been high on Bob's bucket list. I have really wanted to make it happen so our whole weekend was centered around seeing this big massive dent! It was even better because this day was our anniversary and it was great to celebrate doing bucket list stuff! I won't lie, the crater is pretty spectacular and really hard to capture in a photo.
The crater is literally out in the middle of no where. I mean its completely desolate, and then you see this mountain rise out of the earth. Its wild and amazing to thing about how much of our mountains and earth was shaped by the impact of meteors. Geology is amazing.
Before touring the crater we rode the 4D ride in the museum. The seats move and shake and it was a hit because we ended up doing it twice!
Meteor Crater was formed thousands of years ago when a huge chunk of iron (about 150 feet in diameter) impacted the earth at 26,000 miles an hour. Barringer the guy who hypothesized the possibility of it being an impact crater as opposed to a volcanic crater spent the better part of his life, 25 years, digging a hole in the center of the crater in the hopes of finding that massive ball of iron fully intact. Little did he know that an impact of that magnitude nearly melted the entire ball upon entry and impact and flung all of the pieces and the earth thousands of feet out. Some parts of the meteor were even found miles away from impact site. Poor guy spent his whole life looking one place when he should have just been looking all the places!
The museum houses one of the largest pieces of the meteor and the girls were both awed by the opportunity to touch the meteorite! I won't lie that it really was neat to have space and earth meet in this moment.
We spent a good chunk of our afternoon at the crater, talking with the scientists, walking through the museum, playing with the meteor simulator and destroying earth (Evie's choice). The whole experience was a blast.
We came back to our cabin the rest of the day for down time. I love down time and it was lovely to just spend the evening together.
Even if it did end in a pile of tickles. Our 17th anniversary ended exactly how it should have.
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