Saturday, March 10, 2007
The trip began with an early wakeup from Supergirl. "Guys get up - we need to get going! Mom, can you please dress J-man so we can get out of here???" We rolled out of bed and were on the road by 7:15am. We had our sites set on Tucson. We crossed the vast plains with views of nothing by shrubs and occasional trains. At the sight of each train, Tri-Guy would call out "Look J-man, a train!" At first J-man was interested, but about the 4th time, he answered, "Daddy, I seeeeeeee. You are starting to annoy me!" and went back to his important task - playing Barbie Fashion Show on the Pixter. As we neared Tucson, we disclosed to the kids that Tucson was only a temporary stop on our way to the Grand Canyon. Imagine the groans from the kids when they found out were were stopping only to visit one of our favorite stores - TriSports (a triathlon store) and a bike shop Tri-Guy had been drooling over on the internet. The kids did get a little more excited when they saw tents outside and realized they were giving away free stuff, like water bottles and stickers. Eight water bottles and 40 stickers later, we were back in the car. We stopped briefly at the bike store, wiped off Tri-Guy's drool, and started the 6 hour journey to the Grand Canyon.
We passed through mountains with little canyons. I started thinking to myself - will the Grand Canyon really be that "grand"? We were perplexed by the pine trees that started popping up on either side of us. Are we in Arizona or Colorado? And the pine trees kept getting denser and denser. "Where is the desert?" As we approached the park entrance, we were sure the desert would return. Nope. In fact, the pine trees stayed all the way to the edge of the canyon. It was twilight as we entered the park, but we really wanted to see the canyon. We stopped off at an observation point and ran to the edge. Even in the twilight, I have to admit that the first view of the canyon took my breath away. In fact, all of the ooowing and aaaahing by Tri-Guy and me scared the kids. They thought we were reacting to the fact that it was a mile-long drop off the side into the canyon. After some reassuring, they finally peeked over the edge. We headed off to find our room and dream of the views we would see in the morning.
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