Grand Canyon

The drive to the Grand Canyon from Sedona was dry. It was flat until we started going up a lot.

We got the canyon late so we just checked into the lodge and had dinner. We went to bed so we could get enough sleep before the next day.

At the visitor's center in the morning we met Ranger Ron Brown. He gave us Junior Ranger packets and talked to us about the park. After that we started to walk the rim of the canyon. the sky was clear for a while but then a big cloud fell into the canyon and everything disappeared. It started to snow a lot, we couldn't see, but we kept walking. We walked over two miles that hike.

At the village, we visited the Hopi House shop and got souvenirs, I got a glass box with a 3D plastic coyote inside. We had lunch then went back to our lodge for the rest of the afternoon to relax in the room. It was nice to watch the snow out the window.

The next day, it was a lot warmer outside so we took a shuttle to the stops along the Hermit's Rest area to see more of the canyon, but we didn't make it to hermit's rest. 

After that we went to Ranger Ron's fossil talk. He took us to the Bright Angel Fault Line. It is a place where the continental plates touch.

The rocks on either side of the fault line are from different time periods because one of the plates rose higher than the other reveling older rocks. You can tell because the rocks on the surface on the left match the rocks 200 feet down on the cliff so you'll find fossils on one side but not on the other.

We had lunch at El Tovar then we started to hike the Bright Angel Trail. We did two miles of the trail.

Then we went to the Critter talk. It started to rain so we went into the gift shop.

We left the next day for Page, Utah. It was cold and snowy, but we stopped to get our Junior Ranger badges. Along the way we stopped at the Tusanayan Musuem, and the Desert View Watchtower. Off to Page we go.