Grand Canyon: Day 2

We awoke to a beautiful morning. I snapped some pictures of the sleepers when I first woke up.

And Garry snapped a picture of sleepers on his way back from the bathroom.
This was our home sweet home.

We had a big breakfast of bacon, sausage, hash browns and eggs to start our day off.

Cynjyn was reading Divergent every chance she got.

Then we headed off to the red bus route with our friends for our day of hiking and site seeing.

The red route stopped at about 7 different areas and you could get off at each one and see a view of the canyon.  If you didn't want to ride the bus, they had a hiking trail you could hike to each bus stop too.  We hiked three of them, each about a mile and rode the rest.  Taz, Alexis, Bryan, Grady and Gavin went on a much harder hike-3 miles down then 3 miles straight back up.  But the other 19 or so of us did the red route.  So that is why Taz isn't in many of these pictures.

We hiked to an area where we could see the endangered California Condors gliding over the canyon. It was beautiful to watch.

It really was spectacular and to me it almost looks like a picture in the background, but it is really God's beautiful creation.

We spent the rest of the afternoon back at camp resting and visiting.  We decided to go watch the sunset, so we all drove back to a good spot and hiked a little ways out to see the view.

We got there early enough to enjoy visiting before the sunset came.  Cynjyn brought Divergent and read it the whole time we were in the geological center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selfies at Sunset:

 

 

 

It was a beautiful ending to a great day.  

 

We took some panoramic views on our phones and so I wanted to include them.

 

That evening, everyone came to our campfire again and we had desserts to share.  Some people still had S'mores, others brought cobbler, chocolate stuffed cones and dutch oven brownies to share.  We played the Do Do game for awhile and Tanner befriended Seth who is almost 8 and he and Seth played that game and talked the whole night!