We arrived here on Sunday morning. This canyon is an awesome sight to behold! You cannot possibly imagine the vastness without standing here in person. I will not further try to explain, but just show you the pictures and leave it at that.
The lodge at North Rim is super pretty and right on the edge. We rented a small cabin and slept here one night. Since we did our big hike in Zion, we were not even a little bit in the mood! Dave, of course, was happy to go at his man-sized pace by himself. The rest of us relaxed and went out to a few small lookouts. The atmosphere is so calm and peaceful here!
Another picnic planned and packed by the dad. He's good at these things!
And then we met Denali Dan. He's traveling to 25 State Parks in 5 months and he takes pictures and puts them on FB. He lives in his little Geo there behind him. It gets 50 miles to the gallon, and even more when he drafts behind semi's!! He likes to keep it at 55mph. When asked where he sleeps, he said he doesn't, he passes out. Right over across the passenger seat, with the seat reclined, and so on and so on. I got the picture, altho probably not the same one he was painting. Interesting fellow, he was. From Michigan.
Brooke, Jos, and I went out to Bright Angel Point. Brooke snapped a few pictures, looked at them and laughed and laughed............
....now we all know why!!! That's a real updraft, right there!
We bought dinner tickets to a brisket bbq out in the woods. We were shuttled about a mile out the road and were entertained with singing and joking while we ate.
We ate better than we have in awhile and the goal was to fill up enough so we wouldn't have to eat breakfast tomorrow! We'll see......
We rushed back to see the sunset over the canyon. It's impossible to capture such moments.
Later the dad and kids went back to the lodge porch where a ranger had a telescope set up. They tell me it was gorgeous!! They saw Saturn, rings and all. I missed out, but enjoyed hearing their excitement over the experience.
Beautiful, beautiful! Oh, and I LOL at Brooke's picture w/ the updraft. Phil said, "Perfect horns." Staying at that lodge/cabin looks awesome! Wish we would've done that! The Grand Canyon is just so . . . GRAND! Thanks for the awesome pictures.
ReplyDeletelove all the pics of God's handiwork. Thanks for posting so faithfully Mom
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