A Grand Day at the Grand Canyon

Since I had to give an abbreviated post of yesterday, I will try to make up for it today.

The Sunset tour was awesome. Going this time of year as been a bonus for us. The weather has been wonderful and the number of tourist are a lot smaller, making for smaller groups. The guides are more lenient and seem to take more time to show you more. We made three stops at various points to view the canyon as the sun was going down, leaving the best for last. Our last stop was a point in the canyon that would give you a 360 degree view alowing the sun to hit most of the canyon for a beautiful show of color.

Pictures and words are not enough. Somethings are just indescribable and must be seen to behold.

We returned to Maswik lodge and our room. We were told that it was somewhat rustic and was fairly old. I was pleasently surprised when I opened the door to our room which was in the Pinyon Pine Cabin.

With the nights getting down to 38 degrees, we both slept like a rock. I don’t assume that all the hiking and walking all day had anything to do with it either.

With our first night at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Williams and then the train ride and a night in the lodge at the Canyon and then back to Williams for a night, we had to do some creative shuffling of luggage to not be carring everything we brought for two weeks. The Grand Canyon Railway did a heck of a job keeping everything straight and in order. When we got up we checked out of the Hotel in Williams, left out luggage in our room, boarded the train and forgot about it. When we arrived at the lodge our luggage was in our room waiting on us. When we got up this moring, we got ready and left our luggage in our room again, checked out and then went on another tour, forgeting about the luggage and not having to worry about it. When we checked back in at Williams our luggage was in our room. I could not have asked for a more smooth operation.

When we left our lodge room and went for breakfast this is what accompanied us enjoying their breakfast too.

People didn’t seem to bother the elk, they came and went as they wanted. Like the guides said it is their home we are only visiting here. They did warn you to beware of the Bull Elks because it was rutting season and they could unexpectedly charge at you. Warning heard…I stayed behind things and snuck my pictures.