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Last time I went to the Grand Canyon, I went with friends I had made at camp, one was an American so acted as our tour guide, he chose 'Havaisu falls' so we hiked down to the bottom of the grand canyon, and camped over night, before being airlifted out the following day by helicopter. This I would say was my most amazing trip in my lifetime, and due to this, I wanted Luke and Joe to experience the same kind amazement at such a spectacular place, with it being on our doorstop (sort of!)
So I booked us onto a day trip.
As soon as I told the boys that the coach was picking us up at 6.15, so we had to be up by 5am, there was doubts, and both seemed less enthusiastic to go to one of the seven wonders of the world!!!
Begrudgingly, they both awoke at 5am, and we silently got ready for the day, and got picked up. The tour bus took us to the Hoover dam (again) so we already knew what we were looking at! We continued over the border into Arizona, and hit the dust road to the Grand Canyon.
About 3 or 4 hours later we got off the bus and were at the GRAND CANYON...... we went over to the west rim, which is the closest part from Vegas, and this is home to the sky walk. Which is a glass walk way in a horseshoe shape which goes out over the grand canyon,its pretty scary and spectacular at the same time!
After here we went a little further up the canyon to another point where it is a sheer drop, and NO barrier, so you can either get an awesome photograph, or you can fall off the edge!!
Vertigo kicked in!
We had lunch here too, It was pretty delicious bearing in mind its made out in the middle of nowhere, and I picked the biggest slice of chocolate cake going, Luke and Joe were both too polite to pick it out for themselves.... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
Words really cannot describe the awesomeness of the Grand Canyon, or the day we had, it is just beautiful, Hopefully my pictures do it some justice, but if not then just go and see the grand canyon for yourself!!
So, now back in Vegas for our last night away from England. Im going to go put the rest of my dollars on Red.
Wish me luck!
(And we will see you all soon!!!) xxxxxxxxxxx
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