Day 8

I cant believe we have only been on this trip a week, it feels like it has been longer but in a good way. Today we left Sedona and went to the Grand Canyon; south rim. We hiked down a trail called “Bright Angel” trail. It is the most popular trail so it was pretty crowded and as we were heading down I was a little worried about how rough the people were looking coming back up. The hike down was so relaxing, especially compared to the hike we had in Sedona. I was taking a ton of pictures and David was telling me to stop taking so many pictures or we would never get through the hike. It was just so amazing to be so up close to canyon. The view from the top of the rim is incredible but being down in side the canyon looking up and being so close to canyon wall is indescribable, it definitely makes a person feel small to say the least.  At one point I was able to go out on to a flat ledge area and just look up and completely circle around and from every direction it was just massive and just amazing.  We hiked down a few miles then headed back up. I realized why they people were looking near death, some of the slopes up that were a breeze coming down were really steep on the way up, but we made it and in pretty good time too. I think we had a good warm up from the day before or maybe were getting better at this hiking thing. 

            When we got back to the top, we walked around the rim for a little bit and then we decided to go over to the visitor’s center. It was such a great place and was able to learn a lot about the canyon. We watched this really good movie about the canyon, which made me want to go rafting in the canyon very badly; it looks like so much fun. I am going to add it to the list for the next road trip.

            After we left the visitors center we went and set up our camp at the campsite in the Grand Canyon Park. It was really nice and it had showers, which was much needed. After we showered we cooked dinner, Mac and cheese and corn, yum. We ate quickly and then went back to the Grand Canyon Rim to catch the sunset. It was one of the best sunsets I have ever seen. We met some people also doing a road trip but mostly around Utah. Their made us realize we need to do a separate trip to Utah to see Zion, and some of the Canyons out that way.

            After the sunset we sat out under the stars and then we went to buy firewood so we can have our first fire of our trip. After that it was a perfect camping night, like you would picture in a movie. The stars were bright, the fire David built was perfect, it was chilly out but the fire kept us warm, and there were bats flying over head. All we were missing were the S’mores.