Mom and I knew it was going to be cold and we packed accordingly. We lost basically a dayflying there and a day coming back. But we planned it so that I didn't have to take much time off work at all. When our plane touched down in Flagstaff we knew we were in for a rollercoaster-there was snow everywhere. And not just a little snow...a few inches.
We went to Enterprise to get our car and we had heard that the I-40 was closed, so we asked if there was another way to get to the Canyon. Now before I go further let me tell you that we made plans for ourselves which is why we got the car. We thought we would be able to do some driving and go to see the Painted Desert, Montezuma's Castle, and other things. The nice gentleman at Enterprise said that there was another way and we got those directions.
On the way up we stopped at a Target to get necessities (at least for us) Diet Mt. Dew for Mom and Sobe water for Me and a few snacks for us both. And off we went. Mom and I were both a little worried about driving on the snow/ice. But there were others out driving in cars that were smaller than ours-plus there was someone in front of us almost the whole way there. We liked that too.
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| Mom driving up...a little white knuckled!! |
Once inside the park we slowly made our way to the lodge. It was dark and very cold by this point. I think we were both ready to put our stuff down and chill out from the plane ride to the car ride, it was taking a toll on us. So we took our luggage inside and checked-in, where we were promptly told our cabin was just down there and we could drive if we wanted to. I think Mom and I both wanted to laugh hysterically or sob-but we "womaned" up and took our stuff down to the cabin. OHHHH the warmth when we opened that door! They hadn't left the light on for us, but they had left the heat on! We unloaded and got comfortable! It was great but we were starving. We hadn't eaten since our quick breakfast on our layover in Charlotte. So we decided to go to the lodge for dinner and we were in bed by 8 that night!
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| Our little lodge! |
We had looked over the options of lectures and things at dinner so we knew we wanted to do the nature walk at 10 and it was a great place to start-because it was at the visitors center. We got there early enough to catch the movie and then we went on our walk and got our very first glimpse of the canyon! Ty, the park ranger who gave the lecture, we informative and funny. He told us about the plant life, wild life, and how the canyon impacts them all. He answered all of our silly questions and I had tried to convince Mom that we should try the trail to the geology museum. Ty helped me out and told us that he thought it would be clear so off we went! During the walk one of us would just stop because we saw something that just took our breath away. Pictures do not exactly do it justice because the scale is something that is very hard to catch.
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| Our first view of the Grand Canyon!! |
The start of the hiking!!
Elba Tigers were playing for the 2A State Championship and we were supporting them in our way!
ELK!!!
These were both taken at one of our favorite overlooks! Mom wouldn't go out quite as far as I would but the view was amazing!
We loved this! We thought it looked just like a deer!!
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| I like to put things into perspective! There is zoomed all the way in....see the people on the ridge?! |
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| This is the same perspective just zoomed out! Hope that gives you an idea of what we were looking at!!! |
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