1. Only a 4 hour drive passing by several outlet malls!
2. We spent a day at the Grand Canyon. We hiked the South Rim canyon trail which let us have a view of the Grand Canyon the whole time and it was paved!!
3. We went to the Lowell Observatory and the kids got to see Saturn through a huge telescope as well as the star 'Sirius'. Marissa especially loves this kind of thing and has been asking us questions such as "Is Jupiter a dead planet like Mars?" ever since.
4. We saw the remains of Sunset Crater Volcano after which Marissa was full of questions.
5. We visited the Wupatki Indian ruins during which time we decided that the rooms in their buildings were way too small. Ryan's favorite part was seeing (and feeling) the 'blowhole' (see picture below).
6. Devon fell into the toilet at the hotel, which gave us all (except maybe Devon) a good laugh!
7. You might read this and think all we do is go on trips and while that may be true for the time being it's all thanks to Uncle Dan and $39/night rooms at the Marriot!
8. The hotel had an indoor pool that the kids would have liked to frequent daily if we'd have let them and a cozy fireplace outside in the courtyard!
The Grand Canyon - as you can see Sawyer is really enjoying the view!
The canyon trail was lined with big rocks that the kids liked to walk along. They also like to run ahead of us on the trail and then hang out on the rocks. We could push Sawyer in the stroller, the kids never got tired, and we had an awesome view of the canyon - this was the perfect hike for our family!
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
This is the 'blowhole'. Air gets trapped underground and gets pushed up with some impressive force. It was surprisingly cool as well which led us all to wonder why in the world the Native Americans didn't build their buildings around this for some natural air conditioning!
The boys in front of the Wupatki Ruins.
From this view it really looks like the rooms are tiny...admittedly, when we walked right next to them they were bigger than they originally looked.
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I'm going to have to get more details from you about this trip. We've been wanting to take our kids to the Grand Canyon, and this looks perfect!
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