The Grand Canyon

One of the "Must Do" days out from Phoenix is the Grand Canyon, so we borrowed Gareth & Lizzy's car for the day and took the 3 hour drive north to see what all the fuss was about... It's absolutely unbelievably huge! Quite honestly I don't think either of us thought it would be this big, but it really was - driving along it took us most of the day as we stopped off for photo taking, walks and of course food. Definitely one of the most stunning things in the world.

OK, so a few facts for you...

• The Grand Canyon is 18 miles wide.
  
• At average the Canyon is 5,000 ft deep.
  
• The Grand Canyon is 227 miles long.
  
• The Canyon takes up 1,218,376 acres of land.
  
• A trip to the bottom of canyon on foot or camel is a 2-day trip.
  
• At the deepest part of the canyon it is 6,000 vertical feet.
  
• The Grand Canyon is NOT the biggest canyon in the world... I'm guessing there must be somewhere out there called the Grander Canyon?

A little video evidence of us at the Grand Canyon...

Gracie and Laura admiring me admiring the view!

The Grand Canyon...

And more...

And more...

Family shot - just to prove we were all there!

Gracie eating a well deserved Ice Cream having been carted all day around what is essentially a massive hole in the ground... there wasn't even a playground!

And a nice Italian on the way home (and I use the term 'nice' very liberally)