Speechless...

Easter afternoon we drove around the Grand Canyon South Rim, stopping at various overlooks, each as spectacular as the next. There are no words to describe it. Seeing the canyon, it's hard to get a grasp of scale until you look into the canyon with binoculars where donkeys and people navigate the trails. They literally look like ants, if you can even see them with the naked eye. We notice that at each stop, the canyon changes as the sun moves across the sky. The Park has a great bus system (natural gas engines) that ferry people around the park and into auto-restricted areas. Some places have no guard rails, so this is totally unsettling for Rick and Dennis. We managed to get some awesome pictures at each stop. We all commented that the Canyon looks like a fake backdrop from a movie! Our minds are corrupted that way!

While the bus stops are convenient, we still had to walk a bit to get to some areas. We saw many of the structures built in the early years of the park. The most fascinating to me is that the main architect was a WOMAN: Mary Colter! I bought a book on her life and am reading it. She was truly a pioneer. Her buildings are rustic, using local materials, stone and timber and each one a gem, blending into the Canyon perfectly. The Park uses this to its benefit by selling souvenirs out in each small building. At one point, Dennis was looking at a stone box, the lid fell off and dropped to the floor. Me, being the coward, turned and ran. I now am labled a traitor, turning and running at the least adversity. He said he wouldn't want me on his posse in the wild west! Sorry, Den.

We stopped for dinner at the Bright Angel Lodge. Dinner was wonderful and not as expensive as we feared. Trout, steak and ribs, pretty reasonable with cloth napkins, even... Pretty nice Easter dinner. Back to the camper by bus, we crashed and hung out watching the now-working cable TVf. The guys are very happy!