We're home. More posts tomorrow morning.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
OK, so I started a blog about "The Larkins Family trip to the Grand Canyon via camping and car." and didn't realize we would really love car camping. We are not hard core, backpacking, eat off the land folks, but we do love seeing nature and photography and the kids like the hiking, being together and no laptops.
Just look at that exhilarating landscape!! Ok so we have taken to calculating mileage between radio/cell towers. Ya gotta do something for entertainment.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
Aftera long day on the road we should make it Albuquerque. We stopped for a real dinner at Applebee's near I-40 in Gallup. Thanks, TJ, for being a great waiter! On to a hotel room reservation, full speed ahead! Ok I am tired.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
We went in looking for that great ice cream plce and only found 2 hagen-daz places. It was a bummer!
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
We have wandered through Ceazars Palace to the Bellagio and looked at the Chuhuli glass. Wow!
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
Now that was an eciting show! The kids playing limbo were exciting as the russian bar act. John and the kids walked around last night and caught the outside show at treasure island. John did his morning run as he flew by paris and ran across the brooklyn bridge without even getting his feet wet!
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
Apparently trays and carriers get an automatic search.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
We took some sunset pictures from yavapai pt on the rim on our last night here. Tomorrow starts off early for a trip to the Hoov!er Dam before continuing our journey to Las Vegas! Good night everyone.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
John got up for a sunrise run along the rim this morning. The kids have been cooking. Howmany times can you say grilled cheese? Right now we are enjoying the Canyon Cafe where drinks for four was 11 dollars. It's hard to think of this as rustic camping with RVs everywhere and the souund of cars everywhere.
The canyon is majestic. We walked along Yavapai Point this morning along the Rim Trail. We like the signs the say people die each year by falling, not people may die, people do die... So far we have seen cars from as far as New Jersey and Mexico. I think John and thekids are going to hike along Bright Angel and try to glimpse the condors. A guy at the Black Canyon campsite told us about that. Ho said it was also fun to listen to the folks getting ready to ride the mules and their jokes. Sorry I don't have any pictures of us. Some of us are cranky about having our picture taken.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
So here we sit in a TacoBell eating a late snack with 1.5 hours still to get to camp, but we have coffee now.. that drive to flagstaff was pretty boring except for the occasional dust devil and a casino every few miles.
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
Well somebody fogot to pack the coffee and needless to say Rose is not funtcioning too well.
I know what is going on the shopping list.
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We stopped at a A&W/Lon John Silver's restaurant for lunch in Tucuncari. Yummy!
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)
Meet Mr. Anklyasaurus! We met a family from Frisco traveling to the Grand Canyon also and the told us about a grat local italian restaurant in Vegas called Batista's Hole in the Wall the the Rat Pack (and the mafia) once hung out. One more place to check out. More pictures later. Yesterday we passes a train with windmill blades (60) on it and now we are pasiing a wind farm with too many to count!
Rose Larkins (from G1
And we decided to have dinner at Pizza Hut. while waiting for the pizza we discovered that one of had aa childhood lacking in the finer points of playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. Pizza was great. Christina and Robert entertained everybody with their eclectic taste in music.
Time to crawl into the hotel bed, It's the last chance for a civilized shower. I am going to miss that. As I am writing this I am heaaring Primadonna (Phantom ot the Opera) whike the kids sing about Davy Crockett. Fascinating,,
Rose Larkins (from G1 phone)