Today we got explore the canyon. Well part of it at least. We walked down to "ooh ahh point" then "cedar point". Took about 50min, then we walked the other half of the walk down to "skeleton point" where we had lunch. A beautiful lookout of the canyon and Colorado river. After lunch we walked back to the top, it was a lot harder than we thought because of the elevation. But we made it in good time. Mike wasn't supposed to pick us up until 5pm but there he was i...

Today was one of the best days of our lives, specially in Emelie's. One of her big dreams came true today, to witness the majestic Grand Canyon. We left Navajo early this morning and arrived at the Grand Canyon around 1pm. The guys that would take a helicopter ride over Grand Canyon had a lift with Mike to the airport where we "checked in". 20 minutes later we sat in a helicopter, the first time for all of us. Then we took off! The following 30 minutes was somet...

Today we left the snowbird area ( snowbirds are old people who emigrate to the warm south during their cold winter back home) and traveled to a cowboy camp called Betty and Rusty's, named after the owners. It was really cool to travel in to desert landscape filled with giants cactuses, like the ones you see in old western movies. When we arrived we had a quick look around before dinner. Some people of the group went on a horse ride among the cactuses but we deci...

Today we left San Diego to travel into the land. We took off around 8.30 am and arrived in Quartzside around 4pm. The bus trip was fine, saw some cool mountains along tho way. We were under time pressure since we had a game game to catch, it's Superbowl Sunday! New York Giants Vs Patriots, so we're sitting in a bar with a drink and it's soon time to order some American pizza. It's commercials every 30 sec, damn. So it will be an evening in American style!