Friday, April 23, 2010

Arizona Vacation - Day 5

DAY 5 -

We woke up to a chilly morning, ate HOT cereal and HOT cocoa for breakfast, packed up camp, then off to explore more of the Grand Canyon. Took a few hikes, listened to a ranger tour, and the kids fulfilled their requirements to earn their "junior ranger" badges. We also went to the Grand Canyon IMAX theater to see the "Grand Canyon Movie." It was pretty cool. (I only had to close my eyes a couple times to avert motion sickness.) We had originally planned to have Aaron and Tim go on a helicopter ride into the canyon, but we ended up changing that part of the trip, and this movie was almost like we got to experience both FLYING through the canyon and boating through the rapids.





This cute little Mountain Bluebird was just hopping around our camp all morning, just a singing' away. He was just a delightful little thing!




Park entrance sign. (we were actually on our way OUT of the park at this time...)



We took the short hike on the Bright Angel trial, only down to the first archway/tunnel









Here are the kids receiving their jr. ranger badges...





We drove out of the park via the east entrance, so we could check some ancient ruins and visit the "watchtower." The tower was undergoing some remodeling, but we could still climb the stairs up to the top level and look out over the canyon.



The watchtower from a distance -











After leaving the Grand Canyon, we drove up to Page Arizona and set up camp at the Wahweap campground at Lake Powell. As usual, we were running later than I thought we would, and we didn't get there until after 6pm might have even been close to 7... and the camp store was closed. We unloaded the stuff they needed to set up camp and then I ran back into town to buy firewood. (we had the camp stove with us of course, bu that night was our "roast hot dogs over the fire night" - so we kinda needed a FIRE!) Tim and the kids set up the tent while I was gone and then walked down to the lake. We had another late dinner that night then off to bed! (one good thing about this BUSY BUSY trip - is that the kids we so tired every night that they were anxious to go to bed and fell asleep almost instantly!)

3 comments:

Charlotte said...

I'm honestly loving this travelogue. It's fun to see the pictures, and it's especially fun to see that in many ways, you're still the same old (wonderful) Jeri. Still loving nature, still adventurous as ever, still willing to take what comes and love it. Thanks for the continuing story.

Heather said...

Can you teach me how to pack a mini van to camp for 6? Cause we quite because of that!

Jeri said...

trust me Heather - it was a TIGHT fit! We were packed to the gills and then some! I meant to take a picture of the fully loaded beast, but never did;(