The Grand Canyon

When we talked about going to Arizona to visit Sharon Collin talked about going to see the Grand Canyon - so of course, we did...

Just as soon as we pulled up Kelsey fell asleep so Collin and I did a little recon while she slept in the car with Chad

We went up to the Watch Tower. It looks hundreds of years old but it was built in the 1930's. Super cool look out

Collin's so patient for mom's pictures

There's 4 flights of stairs to climb to reach the top. But there's windows all the way up

A view from level 3 to Collin on level 1

We finally went and got Dad and Kelsey and did it all again (my legs were like spaghetti)

We were lucky we stopped for a pit stop just before we got to Sharon's house at the Flying J they had these yellow jackets on sale for $3 so we got them for the kids - a good thing since it was so windy and cold up on the ledge.

Collin was most impressed with the big hole in the earth

We got Collin's new friends from Pennsylvania to take our picture. Chad and I wanted a picture of just us but it was so windy and not rail where we were so there was no way we were letting go of Kelsey!

So windy!

We stopped again really quick and got someone to take our picture while the kids sat in the car.

We took a side trip to find the village - instead we found about a dozen elk

and about 20 deer - quite the adventure!

We stayed the night in Williams - about an hour away. We were going to go back up in the morning before we went home but it was SNOWING! We also figured out it was about a 10 hour drive back so we decided we would just leave. Chad's great though and stopped a couple of places so I could get my smashed pennies! :)