The GRAND Canyon - August 18, 2006

Today we made it to the Grand Canyon. It was a very short drive since we drove a lot longer than planned in search of a campground the night before. The Grand Canyon was....grand. It was almost hard to take it all in. I took a lot of pictures yet I still feel like I didn't do it any justice. There was a trail all along the edge that you could walk on, with lots of outlook spots. I don't really know what else to say about it so I've just included a lot of pictures.







In this picture Jesse is trying to throw rocks at me. He missed.







We left the park for a couple of hours to go and see the Grand Canyon Imax movie. It was very cool. It gave an interesting view of the canyon floor and made me want to come back and hike through the canyon sometime. It says that the hike to the bottom and back takes more than a day which is why I didn't do it while I was there. Plus Jesse wasn't very keen on the idea. Anyone else want to join me sometime? We ended up returning to the park to camp that night. The campground was very similar to those that we're used to in Canada. The one difference was that instead of being told to watch out for bears or racoons with your food, we were told to watch out for ravens. These birds were huge, and there were tonnes of them just walking around. We saw in the site next to us that some had ripped apart a styrofoam cooler and eaten the contents. Luckily we didn't have any problems.