At first I thought; Wow, thats pretty big! then; Nahhh... And now, with some more reflection over the whole thing - Yes! It's pretty big!
There's not a whole lot to say about the dam.. it's huge, big and all of the above. It's just like on the pictures and like the movies. My Mom really liked it, and it was awesome to see her walking on the memorial bridge! I just love teasing her, you just get so many fun comments :) makes many good laughs for both of us.
Adventure #2 today was Grand Canyon! Woohooo! At least we thought...
I really want to do the sky walk, so we had to go to the West side of G.C. Now, to get to the west side, you have to drive an hour on a tiny swirly dirt road (we didn't know that at first). Well, you do what you gotta do, right? We hit the road, and it went fine. A little slower and longer then we had wished, but it was fine. We finally hit the pavement on the other side and now we start to get really excited! The sun was shining, I had updated my iPOD with new good music. My mom even turned up the volume a few times(!). The landscape was amazing - totally gorgeous! We slowed down by the 'parking guy', waiting for directions for how to drive and such. Not a sign of what would come next; this guy, definitely didn't have Bob-news a lá "I'll let you go for free" nahhh... this guy said; "I'm sorry Ladies, we closed the park at 3.45 pm, but you are very welcome to park here and go to our gift shop". Do I have to explain why I now tonight, joined the website fmylife.com ????!!!!! I mean REALLY? Who close a National Park at 3.45 to begin with? When one of their nicest attractions are the sunset! CRAZY!
After some talking, they agreed to let us in, but we would only have had a 15 minute break by the actual canyon so we said 'thank you but no thank you', and headed out - through the gift shop! At least we could use the restroom....
This whole time I kept thinking about the comedian Jeff Dunham and his puppet Peanut. The episode when Peanut tries to remember where they are (Santa Anna) and every conclusion he makes is in hell. I kind of felt like poor little Peanut there.. No stores (gift shop doesn't count), no water, no gas stations, no food, just dessert everywhere (beautiful dessert but still) and now we had to drive this whole long drive back to find somewhere to sleep, so that tomorrow morning we can make that drive again. All the way out there, and guess? We'll have to pay over $60 to see natures own creation, and then drive all the way back again! Hmpf..!
Besides all these floppy incidents, we are having a good time, Mom and I. All these things really just crack us up! It's just so stupid. Just our luck!
After a long day with no food, we ended up at Denny's. It was goooood! Besides the fact that my Mom couldn't get H2O-satisfied and then later, that we had trouble with paying. Who thought it could be so hard...? Ohhh people, there's nothing like an over tiered Mother and Daughter on the Road....! Thank Heavens for Ross, who took us in for some speed shopping before bedtime.
Location update:
Kingman, Arizona
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