Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon, AZ - June 27

What a magnificent place!! The pictures will be worth more than my words, so I'll be short and sweet. Williams is about an hour or so away from the Grand Canyon National Park, and the Jeep was perfect for the trip. Dad had previously purchased a Senior Pass for the National Parks for $20 that covered our admission for all National Parks and got us into the shorter pre-paid line as we entered the park. We arrived about 10:30 and didn't have too much trouble parking, thankfully. We were at the South Rim at one of the most popular sights, Mather Point.  As we were walking to the rim, Dad mentioned that he really enjoyed the Grand Canyon so much because there was quite a lot of suspense walking to it, and then BAM! there it is. That was the truth for sure. It's like all of a sudden after walking up these paths and seeing all of these people, there it is! Mather Point has railings at the most popular spots, and I was quite thankful for that!! I actually got quite nauseous as I looked down into the canyon. Speaking of those rails, I saw this teenager climb over, and I said to Dad, "If he falls, I am going to require a lot of therapy." The canyon went down forever and across forever, and we could only see a tiny little bit of the Colorado River. Dad gets a Gold Star for bringing the binoculars, and we saw people on horses down in the canyon riding around. Thanks, but no thanks to that!! The following pictures are from Mather Point.

Mather Point at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon

Hanging my legs into the Grand Canyon!! This was as far as Dad would let me go!! I love this picture!!!

Russell the tourist.

The Colorado River - this is really really zoomed in. As far as my camera could go.

On top of the World!

More of the Grand Canyon

Entrance of the park

After we walked Mather Point for a while, it was time for lunch from our coolers.  We ate in the Jeep because we couldn't find any shady areas for a picnic. We decided to take the bus around to some other points of the park that were only visible by the bus, and that  worked  well. Although we didn't actually get off (we decided that the view was just as good from inside the bus) we did get to see quite a lot more of the canyon from our comfortable seats!

The Grand Canyon really was a totally spectacular place.   I'm so thankful we were able to visit.   The trip there and back was uneventful and I'm also pretty happy that we didn't fall in it!!