Day 2 and 3

Notes:
1) You can click on each image to enlarge it to see it better.
2From now on, we're going to put some "Random Impressions" for the day. We'll put these at the bottom of each blog entry.
3) Teresa - I LOVE being the "camp couselor (Mitchell's impression on her behalf). She's been an awesome travel agent, tour guide, and planner.


Praise God...Abby is 100% now (as of mid Day 2)! Thanks for your prayers. "God hears the cry of the poor." Lot's of theology in there...He would have "heard" even if Abby wasn't feeling better now...but we ARE thankful for the good times as well as the difficult ones.

Drove from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon. Stopped in Mesquite, Nevada for lunch. Lots of rocks. They're really proud of their rocks...lots of signs saying "Watch For Rocks".

It seems that Lauren and Katie are addicted to reading all of the books they brought. We never thought we would have to "restrict" their reading! I can understand restricting computer time or TV time...but READING?!? They seem to have no trouble reading up and down the winding mountain roads.

Arrived at the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim around 5:30 or 6p. Of course, our first view of the Grand Canyon (while en route) was breath taking. Our more captivating view was at dusk, and then sunset. Wow!
I (Mitchell) got to spend some good time talking with God about this creation as I watch His sun set over the South Rim. What a blessing we have had.


Awoke early on Day 3 to see the sun rise over another portion of the Grand Canyon. Pics can't come close to revealing the beauty of the different shades of red, orange, and tan as they reflected the first rays of the day...but I'll add one just for a taste.

Spent the rest of the day traveling along the North Rim. Many beautiful sites, the most impressive was at the end of the trek at Cape Royal Pt.

Left a peak elevation of 8803 ft down to Kaibab (bab pronounced like "Bob") Lodge, about 16mi from the North Rim Lodge. We'll stay here tonight and then travel to Zion National Park tomorrow for a couple of days, then one day in Bryce Canyon.

RANDOM IMPRESSIONS

• moderate walks feel like a mile run
• Air is thin - difficult to breathe
• Lauren - My hair is straighter
• Mitchell and Abby - My hair is...who cares?
  Abby - I'm myself again (daddy's impression on her behalf)
• Rocks, Rocks, and more Rocks and no grass - in the lower elevations - say less than 6k ft or so. Above 6k, started seeing tall pines, Aspens, and maybe two or three other species. Ther were even forests (hence Kaibab National Forest). When we first entered, we thought
  
  "How can you define a forest by rocks? Some were taller than others and some more jagged, however, they're not trees." Later we saw...
  
• All - hardly any sweating, even after moderate exertion.
• Katie - sniffle sniffle sniffle - back to the dry, thin air situation
• Teresa - What TIME is it anyway? Confusion with multiple changes in time zones and the fact that Arizona does not "celebrate" daylight savings time.