Friday, May 28, 2010

A Day in the Life

In April, we had visits from several of Gary's family members when he was put in as the Branch President. Kevin and Amy and their two adorable boys came a day earlier and stayed a day late to play and we had a blast! This is a day in the life of a Grand Canyon tourist at our house.


The day starts with a long drive. Waiting for your turn is the hardest part. Ethan makes a pretty good driver's education teacher.


After all those hard miles, a boy needs some refreshment. There is nothing better than sitting on the front porch with your cousins while eating fruit snacks. They are there own food group, right?


More eating. What? Do they think they are growing boys? We had been looking at several overlooks and they worked up an appetite.


Next on the agenda was a hike down the South Kaibab trail. We were quite the sight to other tourists. Six kids (at least one in a backpack and one on shoulders the majority of the time), one pregnant lady, camelbaks everywhere. You can imagine the looks we got. We were stopped once on the trail by a well-meaning lady making sure we all had sun screen. When we said we were fine, she proceeded to apply it to the kids. No joke.

The reward for our hike was an awesome view. This is the Oooh and Aaah point. Beautiful! I can just hear the boys planning their adventures as they look into the canyon.

There were several more stops on the way back up the trail. This looked like a perfect place to take a break.
Cohen and Truman really didn't want to go to bed but we thought they may be a bit tired after their adventures. I think we succeeded at wearing them out!

1 comment:

bestofthebishops said...

You are so great at writing!! Can I just have you send me your post and I will re-apply it to our blog. Yours is much better!:) You really did get some good pictures. Thanks for having us down. We loved every minute of it!! Cohen just asked me last week if we could go to Arizona again?!