Summer Vacation Day 12, Day 6 in the Grand Canyon

These vacation posts are really more for me and my family than anyone else. To those of you that have are bearing with me on this, I promise: it’s almost over, one more post, I think, about the trip, and then it will be back to books and quilts. Day 6 was our final day ...

Summer vacation, day 11: Grand Canyon, day 5

(To review:  all Vacation 2012 posts) Day 5 was our last full day in the Canyon. One more sleep and then we’d be packing up and leaving in the morning. Speaking of sleeping, my notes tell me it was really warm the night before, and only just cooled off in time for us to get up ...

Summer Vacation, Day 10: Grand Canyon, Day 4

I have reached the point in this storytelling that I’m just going to get it over, darn it, so please bear with me as I continue to tell you What I Did on My Summer Vacation. I figure if nothing else, I’d better finish this story while it is still 2012. With Rapid Day behind ...

Summer Vacation Day 9, Day 3 in the Grand Canyon 2

(Want to catch up on What I Did On My Summer Vacation?  All of the vacation 2012 posts are HERE.) I’m on a roll, so I’d better keep going. The notes I actually wrote on July 20th, day 3 in the Grand Canyon, are very short: I was exhausted. Luckily, between the four of us, ...

Summer Vacation, Day 8: Day 2 in the Grand Canyon 3

So, in my last post on the subject of our trip to the Grand Canyon, I promised I wouldn’t leave my faithful followers hanging for long, and…apparently I’m a big fat liar, because that was way back on the 5th of September. Oops. (For newcomers, my family and I went on a summer vacation that ...