Last weekend Josh, Ava, and I went to the Grand Canyon for the first time! It was really beautiful and seemed almost surreal. We left Friday morning and because we were meeting family in Flagstaff and they weren't going to get there until late afternoon, we decided to take our time traveling and go along a piece of "Historic Route 66." We were inspired by the Disney movie, "Cars." So Thursday night, I printed out some information from the internet and on our way, we stopped in the little towns and tried to find the landmarks from Route 66's hayday. It was really fun; Ava even seemed to enjoy it. We stopped in one town, Seligman, Arizona, that is in the extras on "Cars." We bought a malt from a place that advertised that they sold "TACOS, BURITTOS, AND DEAD CHICKEN," visited a barber shop that thrived before the freeway bypassed the town, and found a car that may have been the inspiration for Stanley in the movie.
That night, we went to the Lowell Observatory and got to see Saturn through a telescope that weighs six tons and its mount is thirteen tons. We also looked at the moon and Mars. The Lowell Observatory is where Pluto was discovered.
Then, then next morning, we went to the National Geographic Grand Canyon visitor center and watched an IMAX movie on the Grand Canyon. That was cool because we only had a day, and the movie showed things that we would never have been able to see ourselves and also told about the history of it. Finally, we went to the south rim of the canyon and hiked a couple of miles along it. (I say hiked, but it was really a paved pathway.) It was beautiful and the perfect time of year to go, as it gets up to 120 degrees in the summer. It looks like a picture and you can walk right up to the edge, at your own risk. We saw deer and elk and some huge birds, too. So I recommend going, but it would have been better if we could have spent a few more days there and hiked down into the canyon.
Ava's favorite things to do at the canyon were climb on the boulders next to the pathway and eat dirt.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Our Trip
Posted by Kishpaugh Family at 6:45 PM
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Hey it sounds like you guys had a great time on your trip!!!! :) We want to go there soemtime here in the summer, I have not been there in so long. Route 66 too, that is cool. Plus I love the movie Cars!!! :) Have a great day.
What fun, you guys! I love your new family pic. Natalie has those same shoes, I think. I wasn't sure who was writing this post, and then I got to the part about how much the telescope weighs, and knew it must be Josh writing. :-) That, and the lack of exclamation points! Love you guys!
Ok, so I just reread the very first sentence where it says "Josh, Ava, and I." tee hee! It WAS Katie writing. You are so cute! I love the part about Ava eating dirt. Yummo.
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