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Hi everyone! I just got the email notifying me that I've been accepted into World of Dreams. Thank you! I'm really looking forward to playing on this server and making some new friends.

Unfortunately due to a busy schedule in the next two weeks, I probably won't be able to log in until around July 17 or so. Our kids have baseball games this week and tournaments next week, and in between that I have a field trip to New Mexico to study Anasazi ruins with one of my classes. I'm excited about the trip, but I'm not so sure about going to the desert in the middle of July, heheh.

I'm looking forward to joining World of Dreams and I'll see you all in game in a few weeks. Thanks!

Ravenna

in game you may wish to chat with Joram as he is into archeology as well. I have to admit to some personal curiosity about the anasazi. are they not the highly successful desert dwellers who vanished virtually overnight?

Ehran, they moved to Miami in the hopes to build a working camel jerky buisness, unfortunately they ate the camels rather quick and after consuming their own wares they attempted to get more from the Miami Dade Zoo. It didn't go well. I heard from a reliable source they were last seen in Jersey selling hotdogs and driving cabs.

think i prefer the notion they were mass kidnapped by aliens. makes at least as much sense you know.

Why go to the desert to study ruins when you can eat pie and icecream at the computer and play around some of the town ruins on World of Dreams , thats ruins and dessert

Well, the desert was HOT and the Anasazi ruins were awesome, but I'm glad to be back home!

According to my professor and researchers at the park, from as early as 1500 BC to about 1300 AD, the Anasazi lived in the area which now makes up Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

In the late 1200s they abandoned their homes and sort of faded away. At the same time, a 23-year drought hit that area. Scientists believe that this drought caused the people to either move away in small groups to the south and east, as larger groups are harder to feed; or to fight amongst themselves or neighboring groups over water and food, causing eventual exodus.

Another theory is that the drought caused a "strange people from the north," according to Hopi legend, to move down into Anasazi territory and massacre everyone they came into contact with. In Utah, evidence of warfare has been found, but in NM, where we visited, no evidence has been found other than parts of many of the buildings being burned.

The architecture was incredible - the older the buildings, the better they were built. It's like something was lost over the thousand or so years of Anasazi civilization.

I took lots of pics, I could post some if anyone's interested, but I haven't looked into the rules of this message board yet.

Anyway, sorry for such a long post to those of you who have no interest in North American prehistory.

I'll be logging in to WoD sometime this week. See you then!

Ashuuk wrote:Why go to the desert to study ruins when you can eat pie and icecream at the computer and play around some of the town ruins on World of Dreams , thats ruins and dessert

I did have ice cream once out in the desert, and of course, s'mores! Does that count?

Ack! those last two posts were mine.