Grand Canyon Impressions

Rebekah:
It took two days but I got all of our stuff ship shape. One of the beauties of organizing it all is that there is less stuff to have to deal with and what's there is easier to get in and out of the car. Elijah and I kept imagining that the Grand Canyon was really the first stop on our journey. So even though it took us a week of driving to get there it feels like we have finally just begun.

Eli:
For the last 3 days we have been at the Grand Canyon. We now are now in a hotel in New Mexico. The Grand Canyon is the largest canyon in the world. It was awesome we went on a rim trail called the trail of time. There were a bunch of things on the ground that had numbers on them they went up to 2 billion. There were also stones on pedestals every single known type of rock in the canyon.

Rebekah:
While we were exploring the rim trail, on our way back to the car, we looked up and saw a huge bird fly by overhead. It was a California condor. Later we talked about why there would be a California condor in Arizona. We decided that for condors there isn't really state boundaries. To them it's all just land.

Izzy:
The Grand Canyon is the biggest canyon in the world. I got a raven finger puppet at the Grand Canyon, because there are lots of ravens at the Grand Canyon. I was looking at it and liking it for three days. I like the finger puppet because he is cute and cuddly.

Rebekah:
On our second day roaming around the rim trail we came across Kolb Studio. It housed a little museum about the Kolb brothers who spent a good chunk of the early part of the 20th Century photographing the canyon. One of the brothers was very adventurous and the other was very dependable and practical. They worked together for many years, but then they began to fight a lot, so they flipped a coin to see who got to keep the photography business they had built together. The one who lost moved to California.