Today we saw the Grand Canyon. To sum it up, it was place you have to see once, but once you’ve seen it, it all kind of looks the same. The good views of the canyon are only accessible by riding the shuttle buses or hiking the trails, so naturally we hiked… psych… we took the shuttle buses. The buses dropped you off at various look out points and then the next bus would be by to pick you up in about 10-15 minutes. Some of the stops that were kind of close together we hiked to. I expected most all of the rim to have guardrails, but the truth was very few portions had rails. Most places you could walk right out to the edge if you wanted and a lot of people did. However, like I said earlier, once you saw it… you saw it so we didn’t stay there as long as I thought we would.
After we finished the shuttle route we drove our car around the other side of the canyon, but we only stopped once. We stopped at the tower on the southeast rim of the canyon, but once we got to it, it began to storm. At first it was just a light rain, but as we were headed back towards the car lightening struck in the canyon and we began to move a little faster. We safely made it to our car and began our drive to our next nights stop.
On the way we came across a little stand with Native American goods so we stopped to look, but while we were there the rain caught up to us and it was much harder now. A lot of the goods and jewelry were set up outside so we helped the woman working the stand get all of her things inside. While we were collecting the jewelry the rain was coming down sideways so we were getting soaked! The Indian lady gave us a bag of Buffalo Jerky for helping her. We really wanted to try it, but not for 12 dollars so we were excited when she gave it to us! We finished shopping then headed on to our hotel for the night, but before we called it a night we stopped at Cracker barrel and ate some yummy food. It made up for the lunch we didn’t eat. Once we got to the hotel we settled down and watched some TV. then caught up on the bachelorette. It was a relaxing evening since I am sure we will be up and on the road very early in the morning.
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