The Grand Canyon!!!

Warning...this post will have a lot of pictures!  But these pictures won't do justice to how magnificent the Grand Canyon looks.  When I got my first view of the canyon, all I could do was say wow.  It was really that incredible and for lack of a better word, grand.  

We entered the Grand Canyon National Park at the South Rim entrance.  Our first stop was at Mather's Point.  This was where we got our first view of the canyon.  We also walked around the rim for a short distance.  

Our next stop was to hike the Bright Angel Trail; well at least part of it!  This trail goes to the bottom of the canyon, but we only hiked 1.5 miles down the trail.  This doesn't sound too far, but as the warning went, what goes down must come back up!  The hike down was much easier than the hike back up!  

While hiking down the trail we saw lots of awesome scenery!  Although there was a lot of rock, it looked different from different views.  The green plants were only in certain spots....and I'm sure there are scientific reasons and explanations of why things grow or don't grow in different spots...I just know there were different scenic views!

 We also hiked through two tunnels.  At the second tunnel we passed some Amish ladies who had hiked down in their dresses.  That is impressive!!

 

 

One of the coolest things on the hike was seeing big horned sheep!  At a turn in the trail, I heard some rocks moving above me.  When we looked up, we saw a group of big horned sheep right above us!  They started coming down toward us and even crossed the trail right in front of us!  At one point I thought I needed to move out of the way as they looked like they were headed toward me.  

At the 1.5 mile point on the trail, there was a toilet and water pump.  We had lunch there, rested in the resthouse, got fussed at by a ranger for being off the trail, and then headed back up!  And of course we continued to take lots of pictures!  

It was nice that so many people were willing to swap cameras to take pictures for you!

Camden on the spot where we were fussed at!  At least we got his picture taken!

Well that was the first half of our day!  And maybe half of the pictures from the day...or not!  But all the ones I can handle for this post!  We'll see how many posts it takes to get through our first day in the Grand Canyon!