Grand Canyon

Our bus picked us up at 6.40 am today for our journey out to the west rim of the Grand Canyon - it was the perfect day weather wise for the trip - we passed the Hoover dam and saw the new bridge they are building to cross over the Hoover dam to ease the traffic that it has - its an amazing sight and should be open in November this year - they say it is going to make a huge difference to the traffic flow.

We stopped miles away from the canyon and had to change busses to go into the canyon - 10 miles of dirt road - but well worth the bus trip - when you start to see it you just can't believe the length and beauty of it all.

Mick and I did our walk out onto the skywalk - 4000 ft above the canyon floor - the skywalk has a glass floor so as you are walking you see the canyon below - a sight that will stay with me for a very long time.  We had pictures taken out there and just stood and took it all in,

Once we had finished there we could walk around for a while and take our own pics - only Mick nearly gave me a heart attack as he went right to the very edge to look over - no way would I go anywhere close to the edge to see what was down below - I kinda know - a 4000ft drop, but he loved it so I took some photos of him on the edge from the safety of a few feet back from the edge.

We had some indians do a dance for us and they were in there native costumes - very beautiful

We never got home till 7pm that night so we were exhaused but glad that being this close to the canyon we actually visited it