We walked all the way out to Bright Angel Pt. and then Adree refused to go to the edge...
I did finally get her out there a little further...;0)
Lee took lots of pictures with his new camera...
and all the kids wanted to sit in the window below the lodge!
We had a very clear view, as you can see! ;0)
As you can see, we visited the North Rim of the Grand Canyon yesterday! I'll have you know that not working every single holiday has it's perks, like being able to go and visit and do things together! I know we didn't go very far, but the kids have never been (well, to their remembering) and we decided it was about time! Actually Lee has only been a couple of times himself, so he quite enjoyed it as well.
We amused ourselves by picnicking at Jacob Lake and teaching the kids to smell the trees...hmmm...chocolate, vanilla, strawberry? Strawberry, definitely! ;0) If you want to see more pics (sorry I am to lazy to post anymore) click here.
The kids were quite impressed, although I couldn't get Adree to go all the way to the railings...which is weird considering she loves all the scary roller coasters at Lagoon! The boys thought it was very neat and even Drake thought it was "very beautiful and an awful long way down..." ;0) Of course we had to ban the use of video games once we got into the park...sheesh! children! ;0) Adree complained most to of the way out to Bright Angel Pt. that she was going to fall and Sethee shouted loudly on the trail that you would definitely die on the way down if you did fall, which wasn't helpful! It was a chore trying to keep Drake out of the way of other people and not walk teetering along the edge of the trail. Adree kept a death grip on him on the way out but, I made her walk ahead on the way back and I shadowed Drake on the way back, pulling him out of the way when necessary. Yes, thankfully it wasn't that crowded. ;0)
At the end of the day Sethee said on the way back to the car, "No wondew I was so excited to go to the Gwand Canyon, it was vewy beautiful!" We really did have a good time and it was fun to show the kids where I went as a kid!
I hear you on the games. Isnt it rediculous how they suck the kids in. We talked about that on the way home as Martin said "I'm bored". Even though we have a DVD player, he has a DS, and a PSP. We told him we never had that stuff to entertain us and he should be thankful.
ReplyDeleteFun!! I wish I could go... Maybe next year. :)
ReplyDeletemy kids act like they've lost an arm if we ban them for a trip...I mean really? We traveled like that every other weekend and none of us died! ;0)
ReplyDeleteSo how long is the drive and when do they close the north rim for the season? I want to go!
ReplyDeleteit's only about 2 and a half hours and they close the last day off Sept. I believe...you really should go, it's so fun this time of year! ;0)
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