I flew down to Dallas one last time so that Chris and I could drive back to Utah together and make an adventure out of our drive. I had talked to a friend at work and she suggested that we stop in Sedona. I am glad she did. It was a great little town. There is a place called Slide Rock State park that has an 80 foot natural water slide on the way to Sedona. We stopped there to enjoy the slide. The water was cold but we had fun. The rocks were really slippery. Chris and I went down the slide and were walking back up. The rocks were really slippery and Chris did not have any shoes on. I stopped and turned around and I saw Chris flat on his belly. He had slipped on the rocks. He was okay so it was really funny. I wish I had seen the fall!
The next day we went to the Grand Canyon. We only had an afternoon to see it. I wish we would have had another day to explore a bit more but it we still had a great time.
When we first got to the Grand Canyon it was a little cold and very windy. I was afraid it would be like that the entire time and we did not dress for rain or chilly weather. I did not post it but in another picture we took I could not even open my eyes because it was so windy.
Chris being his crazy self!
The views were so pretty. I guess it is about 10 miles across most places rim to rim. Most of the time you could barley see the river which is about a mile below. A couple of interesting facts I learned was that it can be 20-30 degrees hotter at the base/river then on the rim and many times it will rain on the rim but not down at the river. I thought that was crazy!
As you can see this raven was not afraid of people at all. He even poised for a picture with Chris.
We decided to end our day with a hike. We wanted to get to a good point to see the sunset but we had to get out past the mountain. We barley made it for the end of the sunset, unfortunately we did not see the whole thing but it was still gorgeous. I love this next picture, it almost looks fake!
I thought this was fun!
This is at the end of the sunset!
One thing that is different about hiking in the Grand Canyon is that the easy part is one the way to the destination and then after you get there and head back you have to do the hard work. We watched the sunset and then had to make our way out as it got dark. We loved it! It was tons of fun.
On our last morning we were able to take a helicopter ride to see the red rock cliffs of Sedona. We were able to go for free because we got suckered into listening to a time share presentation but hey at least we got a cool ride out of it. Here are some of our aerial pics.
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