Grand Canyon Trip

Yay! It's finally fall break! School is insane at the moment and I'm grateful to have this week long break away from everything. I have to get my grades done and put a song in to Finale for my beginning band.  Justin and I left Friday afternoon after work to head to Flagstaff, AZ so we could meet up with Justin's family to visit the Grand Canyon. It had been raining for a day before we left and it was continuing to rain as we left, we didn't think anything of it. Then I remembered that we were going to be traveling through the mountains. Once we hit 8000 ft it started to snow. Boo!

 

Thank goodness it wasn't for long and it wasn't quite cold enough for the road or the ground to freeze so nothing stuck to the road. 

We pulled into Flagstaff around 8pm and spent the night in a hotel and caught up with Justin's family. We had a late late dinner at Denny's (because I was craving pancakes.... Bad!) 

We got to the park around lunch time and had a picnic before we walked through the park. We entered through the south rim and grabbed a whole bunch of pictures at the first look. 

 Thanks Justin for the amazing picture.

 It was pretty bright.. hence the amazing picture of us.

 After we took all of our pictures at the first look we took the shuttle on the western side of the canyon. The guide said that this was the side where the California condors nest and it was the best place to see it. 

 There were still left over from the orphan mine. It was a uranium mine and if I remember correctly, the project only lasted a few years but took 13 years to clean it up.

We stayed for half a day then Justin and I drove back up North to Page, AZ to spend the night. We wanted to try to go half way home.

 Love it!

I have a lot of favorite things about living in the desert and I've mentioned a few of them. Another one of my favorites are the sun rises and sets. 

This is on the way over the mountains into Page. I love the reds, oranges, and purples. 

We also had a very pretty sunrise in Page. The picture doesn't do it justice. It was the same orange, red, and purples we saw the night before.

And yes there was still snow on the way home -_-

 

 We were ready to go home. Justin wanted to do a duck face picture. Ta-Da!

 

There it is... a few pictures from our quick weekend trip!