This post is a long time coming. For some reason, I haven't gotten around to posting these. Griffin and I went to AZ to visit with Payce and Gwen and to see some friends. On the way back we went to the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell (kind of). We had a great time, as we always do. Griff loved the Grand Canyon and discovered he really likes photography! I'm going to get him a "point and shoot" and maybe he'll join the thousands of stay at home moms who are now photographers on Facebook! (I'm kidding!) I think his favorite part besides the Grand Canyon and the pool at Payce and Gwen's was finding Red Box locations all over the place to see if they had any different "Sonic the Hedgehog" movies. It was really fun, the kid is a really good road-tripper. We even got to sleep in the car one night and he thought that was awesome (we reclined the passenger seat all the way back for him and he was out in seconds!) I was not so comfortable, but I survived. Enjoy the pics!
There it is, the giant hole in the ground. Explaining to Griffin how it has evolved was interesting. I think he really liked it once he understood how the canyon was made and saw the river way down at the bottom. And once we saw the display at the Grand Canyon Visitor's center, he was pointing out sandstone the rest of the way home, pretty funny.
Griff was really digging this raven. There were a lot of pics of it on the camera.
He even tilts the camera to the side a little bit, just like the pros! hahaha
Funny kid, he really enjoyed the Grand Canyon.
Griff and the giant hole - sounds like a weird kids' book...
More of the boy...
The artistic, deep in thought shot. I think he was actually looking for the raven.
Griff has a lot of different smiles, I think this one is the - "I'm sick of pictures, let's just find the raven"
REALLY surprised this turned out. Somehow the person I ask to take the picture for me is European. I've had more than a few headless photos taken by Europeans...weirdies...
Griff likes this one because I'm on the edge of the cliff and the raven is right below me.
Look closely (or click on the picture to blow it up, there's the raven again.)
Good landscape by Griff
Griff climbing up from chasing a lizard.
Glen Canyon Dam.
Lake Powell on the way home...
I was teaching Griff about perspective, so he was messing with the telephoto lens, this one came out pretty well.
Showing him how to use the timer...
Griff's pic of Lone Rock - he just had to see it but the Ranger wanted to charge us $25 just to go take a picture, so this is as close as we got.
Starting off the hike - the weather could not have been better, it was perfect.
Griff liked the Camelpak water bottle with the hand grip, though it turned into a water gun at one point on the hike.
We reached the bottom of the falls and there's this cool old log there - makes for good pics as you can see.
Crossing the river without getting wet. Griff didn't go in the river once on the whole climb, he was very coordinated on the rocks and logs - so he never slipped off!
Griff scaled these rocks like a goat, he absolutely loved it. Said he wants to go hiking every time he comes home.
The camera angle doesn't do this justice, it was pretty steep and Griff went right up it, no problem.
This is the hole in the rock that give the falls it's name "Donut". I guess the water was kind of low, or erosion has changed the path of the river a little because the water used to pour right through here.
Griff wanted to keep going, so this is up above the falls, just a beautiful area and the leaves are starting to change.
Can't really tell because of the lighting, but this is looking back down into the canyon we just hiked up.
The bridge near the middle of the hike. Griff needed to stop and throw rocks in the river, of course.
