July 25, 2005
Vacation (part 4: Grand Canyon. Uh oh.)
The scale of the Grand Canyon was a bit overwhelming for the kids -- who even expressed some reservations during the car ride from Bryce about our planned mule ride. They didn't get any more enthusiastic after seeing a bit of the canyon, but the closer came when they visited the gift shop on the North Rim and browsed this book on deaths in the canyon. Case closed: we cancelled the mule ride, to great relief.
More pictures in the extended entry...
...Katie holds on.
On the way from the Grand Canyon back to Las Vegas, we planned to stop in Zion National Park and take the bus shuttle through the canyons. However, we arrived in the Park a bit later than planned, it was blazing hot, and the kids were a bit, um, subdued about the idea of more time sitting and trying to behave themselves. We walked over to the Virgin River, where a couple of folks were swimming. So Sean jumped right in, and convinced Katie that the water was fine.
After a long and refreshing swim, they were back in good spirits...
...so we pressed on to Vegas.
Pictures posted by Kelly at July 25, 2005 08:01 PM