Grand Canyon

On Friday we drove from Sedona up to Grand Canyon. We left early because we knew we had a long day of driving ahead of us. It took us about 2 hours to arrive at the South Rim and we headed straight for the visitor's center first to decide what to do.

We hadn't really thought sensibly about what clothes to bring with us on this trip and had just been thinking about the hot weather we were going to have in Tucson and Scottsdale. When we got to the Grand Canyon there was snow on the ground and all we had to wear was sweatshirts. Everyone else was wrapped up in their coats, hats and gloves! We braved the temperatures and took so many photos. We drove east from the visitor center and stopped at various view points along the way to take more photos. We thought the best views were from Lipan Point where you could see the Colorado River. We're planning to come back to the Canyon again at some point and I'd like to do one of the rafting trips down the river.






After leaving the Canyon we drove for about 4 hours to get to our next stop the Hoover Dam. As you cross the dam you pass from Arizona to Nevada and from Mountain time to Pacific time so that means losing an hour. We arrived too late to do any of the tours into the dam but we walked across it and took more photos.





Next we drove on to the last stop on our road trip - Las Vegas.