Grand Canyon Grand 'Edventure'

Last Friday/Saturday Kaebri and Tasia traveled over to the  South Rim of the Grand Canyon on a "workation" with us.  Paul had done another one of the little water filling stations for the park service and it needed to be washed.  We had a good time listening to Where the Red Fern Grows on the way there and back.  We stopped at Jacob's Lake for cookies and then again at Navajo Bridge so we could look down on the Colorado River. We saw a condor flying by. We were up early on Saturday morning and hiked the new (as of last October) "Trail of Time".  It was really fun, and since we were on Utah time, we were there before it got crowded.  We took pictures of the girls at nearly every stone marker and they tried to make different faces/poses at each.  At the end of the trail the girls got Jr. Ranger packets and we worked on them and then they were sworn in as official Jr. Rangers. After that we rode the shuttle back to our car and then shopped and watched a movie about the Grand Canyon.  We got lunch at the last shopping spot and then headed home. (Grandpa and Grandma learned that eating and shopping can't be a hurry up job!)  It's a pretty long drive, but between the story and the Happy Meal toys the girls did just fine.  I think Kaebri had cheeseburgers for dinner/lunch/dinner.  She's a real fan!  It was a fun trip.  We're thinking that we'll have to start training these grand kids up in the stone trip/vacation tradition as part of "Grand Edventuring".

Jacob's Lake and Navajo Bridge pit stops

Jr. Ranger and shuttle bus fun and making use of some of Grandpa's water filling stations

Random shots here and there.  Below is a shot of the canyon taken through the window of the Desert View Watchtower (also below).  It was our last stop on the way out of the canyon. 

 See next post for our adventures along the Trail of Time.