Craig's blog

Wednesday we made French toast outside (it was a gorgeous morning), made sandwiches and then headed to the canyon for a hike down Bright Angel Trail. Originally Patty had planned to go all the way to Indian Gardens, but last night I talked her down to the first water stop (1 ½ miles down the trail). I thought it would be tough to cajole the kids that far and I didn’t think my knee would make it either. We made it down (with plenty of complaining along the way) and I didn’t have nearly as much fun as normal because I was pretty worried about my knee. We had sandwiches at the water stop and then headed back up. I felt better on the way up when I could see my knee wasn’t going to get any worse. It took us 1 ½ hours to go down and an hour to come back up. We had double scoop ice cream cones at the top and then came back to camp. We sat around for about an hour (I iced my knee) and then we went to town to watch the iMax movie about the Grand Canyon. I think Patty and I liked it more than the girls. We bbq’d and relaxed this evening (the first relaxing on the trip for me).

Here are some photos from the Grand Canyon (more coming from the other camera soon).