Vacation 2015, Day 6

Onward through Arizona!

We had a quick breakfast at the hotel then decided to drive to our first stop, Walnut Canyon National Park. Weeeellll...they didn't open until 9. So - we decided to call that off, find a Wal Mart to see what we could find for pants for Young Mr. and maybe a little something "warmer" for the forecast we saw coming the next day. Pants - success...warm clothes in May in Arizona - you get a really weird look when you ask. We did find the hat Young Mr. is wearing for 25 cents (and he wore it proudly) and some work gloves so our fingers were somewhat warm.

 

 

Sunset Crater was created by a volcano, so the lava fields were cool to walk through. You can no longer climb up to see into the crater so it's a drive by the mountain and "know" it's there.

 

 

Our next stop (and it's connected to Sunset Crater Park) was Wupaki National Monument. It has several stops to see some really cool ancient ruins.

 

 

We drove on to the "holy grail" of our trip - the Grand Canyon.

This photo is the Little Colorado River Canyon.

In order to enter the Park, we had to wait for our side of the 1 land road to open (it entailed parking and shutting our car off it took so long) - it was 1 lane for almost 10 miles. We were so excited to finally get there and see it.

 

 

 

Why yes, that is a PINK Jr. Ranger vest. She wore it from the time we bought it until we got to the airport to come home.

 

We stayed that night at one of the Canyon lodges. We were pretty disappointed in the room (the beds were horribly uncomfortable) and we had a room right inside the door coming into the lodge so it slammed late into the night and started early in the morning.

Our full day at the Grand Canyon is up next...

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