Craig's blog

Well, we got off by 7:45 this morning, which was 45 minutes later than we hoped, but not too bad. The drive to Canyon de Chelly was uneventful although it was pretty windy on the two lane road up to the Canyon. By the time we got here everyone was pretty beat. We went to the visitor’s center and then on the south rim drive, but we only went out to three of the overlooks because we were out of gas (figuratively). We came back and made veggie burgers. Everyone was better after dinner and we played hide and seek around the camp (except Patty). The wind eventually died down and it was (and is) a beautiful evening. It’s 72 degrees now at 10:22 PM. We were debating whether to take a jeep ride through the canyon (which we believe will help the kids and us appreciate the canyon more) or whether to hike down to the canyon and back up which would give us all some much needed exercise since we've mostly been sitting for the past week. Maddie and Kelly had the great idea of getting a jeep to take us through the canyon and having it leave us at the bottom of the trail so we could hike out. We signed up for a custom jeep ride tomorrow morning that will do just that.

We also changed our plans and are going to Lake Powell a day earlier (tomorrow).