In case you are wondering what you do in the car for 6 hours or more with a 10 and 8 year old, here, let me help you out. Here are the words to the song your daughter will listen to on her iPod (with headphones on) at least 73 times. The problem is that [...]
I can not even begin to tell you about the beauty we saw today. Never in my dreams would I imagine what I have seen today. I feel like I am on another planet. Today we tried to get up early and grab breakfast and get on the road by 8:00am for Zion. Okay, I [...]
We took a quick stop at Cliff Dwellers which is along route 89a on the way to Zion. It really was like Mars or something. All these rocks, I really mean boulders, had fallen down the cliffs and landed precariously balanced on edges. William quickly scaled some boulders as we would expect of our little [...]
The cape? When you are driving on the access roads along the rim of the Grand Canyon, you would think that you were at the Cape on Route 6. The trees are scrubby low pines and over to the right or left or in front of you (depending on which way you are travelling) there [...]
Today we lucked out and there was a cancellation at the El Tovar so we were able to re-check in. After we went to a talk on condors (super interesting) and a kids’ program, we settled into our room. This one has a king bed and rollaway cot. The room is located right at the [...]
Today we attended two great programs put on by the Park Service. One was a talk about the Condors and how they were down to only 32 California Condors in the world in the 1980s. They are now up to over 300. It was interesting to learn about these huge birds, and now we know [...]
My knees are not so happy with me. This morning we got up at 5:30am to try and make a ranger led hike that was leaving at 7:00am. This was after I got about 3 hours sleep. The El Tovar may be a Grand Hotel but they still have those loud air conditioners in the [...]
Where else to watch the sun set over the Grand Canyon than from the El Tovar Lounge. We found a nice table right in front of the plate glass window and watched it lower down over the horizon. Today it wasn’t so colorful, but of course, ot was pretty. We shared a plate of cheese [...]
We took a shuttle bus back from our 1 hour and 45 minute hike today on the South Rim Trail. It was a wonderful walk. The views were spectacular and William and Nanette were a lot of fun. The hike got me thinking about the feeling of panic and how we are fortunate that we [...]