Day Trip to take Carrie to see Grand Canyon

Day Trip to Grand Canyon

Taking Carrie to see it before she goes to Alberta

Monday - January 19, 2016

Layers of stone are awesome to behold!

It was a decision reached over morning coffee and by 0930 we were on the road. We filled up the car as we hit Hwy 40 and made it to the Grand Canyon just before noon. 

     As always, this place is impressive. There was some snow alongside the road on our way there and the temperature was around 11 or 12 Celsius with a slight breeze while we were there. 

It costs about 40 bucks each just to go on the tour bus and another 20 to walk on the skywalk where they will not allow any photos to be taken as they have a thriving business selling pics that they take!

Guano Point is pretty impressive!

     Darlene and Carrie went on the skywalk, TJ waited at entrance with a security lady and I got into taking photos. 

     It was a great trip and we took a different route back to Kingman where we made a stop at DQ for ice cream, milkshake(TJ) and a salad (Carrie).

Old, twisted trees provide excellent props for photos.

   

Getting rid of Grampa!

It is about 1 mile straight down here!

Plastered against a wall 

Skywalk.... scary..... expensive, but worth it...

TJ waited here while the girls went on skywalk and Granpa took pics

Hanging on for dear life!

"This is as close as I go"

A spot of sunshine lights up the bottom

Took a different way home to find flat desert with a lone Joshua Tree

Beautiful sunset and daughter in law

On our return 4:45 PM, Darlene and Carrie went to Walmart for groceries while I took dogs for a walk. Later that evening we had a fire while downing coolers and beers until it got too cool outside.

Beautiful Mom and Daughter having coolers by the fire