Extra-ordinary: Day at the Grand Canyon!

Monday was our 8 hour round trip to the Grand Canyon from Phoenix. We woke up at 6:00 actually 7:00 Montana time which seems very early for spring break, grabbed some snacks, cameras and pillows for the trip. Normally when people drive to the Grand Canyon they stay over night, but those people aren't like Justin, Libby and i who really wanted to see the canyon but we also wanted to race home to swim. the farther away from Phoenix we got everything started to look not like we had expected parts of Arizona to look. The sad part was that the temperature at the Grand Canyon was a lot colder than Phoenix was and we froze (by spring Break terms). at the temperature it was at, about 65 degrees, in Montana we would have been running around in tank tops and shorts. on the way over to the Grand Canyon we took a scenic route and drove through Sedona, which is one of the coolest towns Ive ever been to. Sedona is in one of the most scenic places in Arizona with amazing shops as well as "Pink Jeep Tours". we briefly drove through and snapped pictures of as many things possible, on the way out of Sedona your eyes got confused and made us wonder where we were. we got closer to the Grand Canyon and we realized it looked almost exactly like Yellowstone with pine trees and long lines at the gate. the brochures said the canyon was caused by erosion and some other theory that didn't fit with creation, it makes you wonder why the other desert rivers don't erode like the Grand Canyon. its amazing to realize all the clues to the Earth being made by God and yet people don't see the clues to creation, even if there as wide and as deep as the Grand Canyon. we walked along the South rim of the canyon and the first time we saw it, there was a huge WOW and an "it looked smaller from the air plane"! we walked to a large view place where we took a lot of pictures and had our picture taken by a really nice elderly couple that turned out to have a grand daughter in Helena which is not very far from Gardiner.
1 thing everyone should do in their lifetimes is throw a rock off the edge of the Grand Canyon, making sure not to hit any hikers, as well as get helicopter tickets to fly over the Grand Canyon (which we sadly didn't do;()
it was one of the most amazing places ive ever seen and my pictures can only do so much, you have to see it your self. on the way home we stopped and got ice cream and slept most the way back, enjoying the climate increase. on the way we stopped for a bathroom stop but Libby and i weren't feeling required to get out and stretch especially once we read a sign that said "watch your step poisonous snakes and spiders inhabit this area" at that we stayed in the car. we then drove home, careful of not hitting rush hour traffic and hung out at Grandma and Grandpas house with Joy and played "mafia" with joy and grandma and mom and us kids. and then we all drove home and collapsed like piles of rocks and slept like rocks too, with our aching tail bones.

super cool mountains and perfectly clear sky!