Welcome to the Grand Canyon. After a fun curvy road drive into the Grand Canyon area we set up camp at Trailer Village and drove down to the Visitors Center to get Junior Ranger books and some maps. We haven’t seen this many people in a while. Even Glen Canyon seemed like a ghost town compared to this national park that has over 4.7 MILLION visitors a year.
I kept getting stuck between giant rocks!
Mom thought it would be fun to jump off! NO WAY!
The trees were so twisted…
We hiked several trails including the Trail of Time. It was a neat trail because they have markers showing current day all the way to Earths beginnings. Along the trail are rocks from different time periods. It was a great way to learn about the geology of the canyon and how long it took to make! The Colorado River looks so TINY at the bottom of the canyon.
We also hiked part of Bright Angel Trail below the rim of the canyon. I got to see where they have the burrow rides along the trail down to the bottom. Most of the burrow rides are now rim trails with few going down into Phantom Ranch.
We attended a Ranger Program about fossils and hiked a short trail to learn about how this all was ocean floor at one point as evident by the fossils we were able to find in the rocks.
Discussing the rocks on the trail of time. I was amazed at the age of the rocks! 
The fossil program was a lot of fun!
We visited the watch tower and explored the outer roads.
Daddy took an afternoon break on the last day so Mom hiked the rest of the Trail of Time with us and then on out to some of the view points beyond the trail. We had a great time looking over the edge, walking so close to the edge that Mom was SCARED. We finally run out of water and opted to grab a shuttle bus back to the campground.
We hiked the rest of the Trail of Time and well beyond the end.
The end of the Trail of Time.
Emmerson made me check out all the holes he could find.
The wildlife in the park was amazing we saw lots of birds, lizards, squirrels and ELK! The elk were EVERYWHERE, including our campsite.
We woke up surrounded by elk!
Elk free and ready to roll out.
Some elk thought they were trains!
The elk even obeyed the traffic signs… except they aren’t people!
