View from the Top

It has been quite a while since I've updated this thing,. My roommates Jessica S. and Jessica D. took a little trip to the Grand Canyon over the 4th of July weekend. We had a great time! We drove down there on a Saturday, stopped at a cute little restaurant at David Lake for lunch, made a couple other stops for various reasons, hem hem, and our last stop was our first look at the Grand Canyon. Oh, along the way we drove through Zion National Park. When we were at the booth to buy a pass to get through, the lady seemed personally offended that we weren't staying in Zion's. She kept telling us, "There's a lot to see here, you don't have to go there,"... and "Zion's is beautiful right now." Things of that kind. And I'm pretty sure she sighed as we continued on our way. She was right though, Zion's was very beautiful as we drove through. And it's always fun to drive through the super long tunnels. 

These are some of the pics I took on the way. Zion's, the very long tunnel, and of course a driving pic! (Don't worry, we were stopped right then so it was okay that Jessica wasn't looking.) The drive was pretty long, but the scenery changed a lot so it was always interesting. The temperature changed quite a bit too. We would 

go up in elevation and it would get nice and cool. Some of the drive was even foresty, which I didn't even know existed in Arizona. When I think of Arizona, I think of blistering hot massive expanse of dry and dreary desert. Not so. It has some lovely, cool, forest areas, such as David Lake. As we approached the  South Rim of the G.C., it began again to become forest. The drive was pretty much desert, forest, desert, forest,... you get the point. Here is a picture of the Jessicas. Pictures don't even do that place justice, let me tell you. It was absolutely amazing. We decided that from now on, whenever people talk about cool places they've been, we will be the obnoxious travelers who are like, "Well, it's no Grand Canyon, but it's okay.'' Of course we were only joking, but seriously, it was astounding how huge and beautiful it was. There were people from all over the world there. I recognized Russian a few times, there were Asians, Europeans, probably some Canadians, but they tend to blend in pretty well. And it's not wonder they all want to see it. I can't believe I hadn't seen it before. But I am glad that I waited until I was old enough to really appreciate it's magnitude.

Pretty awesome, yeah?? But like I said, pictures just can't do it justice.

"And here we have the Grand Canyon, known for it's visually overwhelming size and colorful landscape."

I will post more pictures soon!