Home again!

Hi this is Grace. Today we woke up at 5:00 in the morning to go to the airport. When we got there we waited in the security line while Dad bought bagels for us to eat on the plane.  Then he left to drive the car and the trailer home, and we got on the airplane and got to watch a video while we were flying. When we got off we went out to the doors of the airport and called grandpa.  It turns out that grandpa's car is dead, so aunt Susan came and picked us up. We drove to grandmas house on the way home and she gave us a good dinner and we sang Happy Birthday to Luke.  I am happy to be home!

The fun day! (we had fun on other days too!)

Today we unpacked the R.V. and Dad drove it to Las Vegas. We packed up the van and trailer and drove to Phoenix. At Phoenix, we drove to a hotel that had a pool. After we unpacked our stuff, we got ready to go swimming. It was really fun.

Sedona

Hi, this is Sean😀. Today I woke up and had breakfast. We went out side and saw the family that was doing a three month RV trip they were Swiss. The two kids spoke only German so we had to hand sign to understand each other. The older one who was five or six and I played catch. After some time dad and I decided to do a hike. We drove to the trailhead and started the hike. At first it was an orchard and a small cave then it became a cool forest. We had to cross the river a couple of times and when we got the 3.3 miles to the end we were hungry.

We had lunch then explored we went just a bit then turned back because mom was waiting. We hiked back and we were really tired we went home and had some watermelon. On the way back we got in the creek and guess what? The leeches got in us we got them off and finished the hike. Afterwords mom and Katie went for a hike here are some pictures from their hike.

The family came over again and I was tired but I played catch with him. When it was dinner time I ate some but then felt horrible so I went to bed early and went straight to sleep.

Here are some pictures on the way back:

Here is a mother toad with her baby on her back.

Grand Canyon

 Today is our last day in the Grand canyon! Here's what happened. I woke up to a breakfast of egg's  and sausage. Then we packed up and decided that we were going to do a hike, so we went to the visitor center and asked a ranger what hike we should go on. Well Mom was asking a ranger we watchted a video of how Grand Canyon was made. How was Grand Canyon made well first it was a ocean and it brought in lots of sand and mud, then the ocean dried up and the mud and sand dried and turned into rock. Then the ocean came again and it kept happening over and over again then the river came and carved it, did you know that the river carried rocks as big as trucks? Today the canyon gets deeper the depth of a piece of a paper every year! Here's some pictures  of a the hike.

Grand day, grand fun, grand canyon.

Today we went for a walk and saw some elk.⬇️

This is me pointing to some elk.⬆️

This is more elk.⬆️

Then we took a bus to hermits rest.⬇️

Then we biked 9.5 miles to the visitors center. This is what we did, and saw on the way

This is us looking at the map⬇️

This is the Powell monument.⬆️

These are the the pack mules.⬆️

Then we went to a critter chat. At the chat, we volunteered. This is us volunteering.⬇️

Mom got pulled over by a cop

Hi this is Grace. Today we drove in the RV and car and when we were all settled in on the road Mom said oh my gosh a cop is pulling us over! But mom was not doing anything wrong.  The cop just said he didn't think she should be on her phone while driving an RV.  She told him she was just trying to figure out where dad was. After we found dad and we were on the road on are way, the RV broke down so we had to pull over. So we went to the rest area, well dad stayed with the RV. When the RV was fixed we kept driving. When we got to the Grand Canyon we went to the over look and saw the sun setting on the Grand Canyon. Then we went to are camp site and and went to sleep.

Superstition Mountains

Hi, this is Sean😀.  Today, I woke up and remembered it was my turn for the hike.  I had breakfast then got ready.  Mom dropped us off for the hike while she and the others went to church.  We drank some water then started walking.  At first it was an easy uphill with some short downhill slopes.  After some time it started sprinkling.  It was funny to think the cacti were saying, "ahh, water."  Then when it ended "soak it up, soak it up this is all the water you get for the next three months". We kept walking straight into a lush vegetation area. There were lots and lots and lots of hummingbirds and bees.  After that the trail got harder. At first it was a very rocky uphill then it turned into steep slick rock. In the middle of the slick rock climb there was a small basin with a pool of water in it.

After the slick rock the climbing began.  We started climbing up. After some time we came to a grove of trees. On one of the leaves there was a chrysalis or cocoon. It was really cool.

We kept on climbing then took a break and ate some lunch. We kept on going until we reached the ten foot wall.  We climbed up it and walked to the top. It was a great view. We ate lunch then explored.

This is the flat iron which is the end of the trail.⬆️

This is a grave for six people who crashed into the mountain in a plane.

After we explored we went back down. Mom picked us up and we went home. We had dinner then read and went to bed.  Here are two pictures of the flat iron from the bottom of the hike.⬇️