THE GRAND CANYON

Darren and I thought that since we lived so close to the Grand Canyon and Me and the kids have never been that his last day off on Firday 8-7-09 we would go.

Here is Darren and Chase walking in the nice green grass. Chase loves to walk and was freaking out in the stroller so we took and a break and let him get some energy out.

Here is Mason getting sworn into the JR. RANGER PROGRAM! He had to say a little speach on protection the wildlife and taking care of the forest. He thought that it was so cool. They gave him a work book to do while at the Grand Canyon. He was in the Raven group.

One of the things he had to do was attend story time. Which he was excited to do. We were ready to leave but waited around for the story time so that he could earn the badge.

Lestin very careful because they were going to be playing a game and they needed to listen to how to play.

The HOPI house. It is a gift shop inside. We weren't able to go inside because of the stroller and the kids would maybe break stuff. They had alot of neat things to look at. While we were eating our lunch we were just sitting on these benches when all of a sudden a Chipmunk came and took our pretzel. Mason started to cry because he got that for himself. We are laughing because we can't believe that things took the whole big pretzel. We then were going to take a picture when we realized we left our camera in the car when we changed strollers. Mason then calmed down and said,"He probably had to feed his family."

Family shot -

This was the lodge they had that the kids loved swinging on the swing. Chase especially loved it, he would laugh the whole time.

It was very windy and Mason hates the wind so he had to wear his jacket because he thought it was cold.

What a nice view!

This bird is a California Condor which usually is only flying never just sitting there. The Rangers said," that it is unusal for the bird to just sit there for an hour." So that was neat.

Shot of the boys!

This was a different stop along the way that we looked at. This stop made me a little nervous because the fence wasn't the best to keep you from falling under.

This was in Tusayan where they have the IMAX THEATER that shows all about the Grand Canyon. Mason thought this was so cool. The movie was good expect the kids only lasted a little bit. We paid 26 dollars to see the movie and then saw that you can buy it for 30. Oh well in the movie you felt like you were there. Over all it was a fun day. We want to go back so we can look around more and then go to Bedrock if it will still be open when we go.