Grand Canyon Day 1

Johnny just started a new job here in LA. He now works 3 days a week and has 2 days (plus weekends) off.  So this past weekend, April 14-18, was our opportunity to take our Grand Canyon trip.  We drove half way and stayed over in Vegas(i'll post pics of that later). From Vegas the GC is about a 4 hour drive.  We decided to hotel it in a small western town called Williams AZ.  This city is about an hours drive into the GC National Park. 

We arrived in the park Friday afternoon and had planned to stay to see a sunset over the Canyon.  The park is divided into an east and west sides, so on Friday we visited the east side.  This side of the park is accessible by car.  This is a great little drive along the rim of the canyon. The above picture has snow still lying around. 

At the end of the 30 minute drive out to the east side of the park is located the Watchtower.  The watchtower houses Indian paintings.  We climbed the steps up to the top of the tower to get a 360 degree view of the canyon.  This very short climb gave us an an amazing  view.

Here we could see down into the canyon and spotted the Colorado river.

Cool land formations down in the canyon.

Heston found a mountain lion, we are so blessed that it was in the local gift shop and not down in the canyon.

Trent and Dad in the Watchtower.

Sun is setting.

Here we could see the moon!

I have tons of pics.  Since a Grand Canyon trip is a once in a lifetime trip I took bunches of pictures.  I'm sure posting all of them would bore you.  So I will break up the blog postings by each day.  On Saturday we hiked down into the canyon.  That was AMAZING! Be on the look out for that blog posting.