National Park #2

I can't post any of the great photos we took yesterday at the Grand Canyon due to computer issues, but will add them when we get home. It was another beautiful sunny day in Arizona and we happened to come during free National Park week! Our friends skipped school and work yesterday to join us at the Grand Canyon. It was so nice to go with someone who grew up here and knows exactly where to go, where to park, which hike to drag nine kids on, and can give us bits of history and info along the way. These friends even got engaged years ago down in the canyon and have hiked from the south rim to the north rim in one day! Yesterday we hiked down into the canyon just enough to get the kids really dusty, work up a good appetite for ice cream cones, and see some wonderful views.

Getting Our Kicks on Route 66

Arizona!

Princess Eee with her bio sis in the Hilton pool in Phoenix. They cannot stop hugging, and they're not very good at sharing each other with any of the other kids in this bunch.
Here we are at Sunset Crater where Zippy was so psyched to study the lava rocks. Cupcake was cold and therefore p.o.'d, and #1 tripped and scratched himself up pretty badly.

Ouch!

At Sunset Crater:

We're off in the rental minivan!

April Showers?

Is this because many people took off their snowtires too soon!?!?