It's a long,long road....

As Lei has asked me to write the blog on The Grand Canyon Tour, I can do nothing else but write it! She would have done it I am sure but as she didn't go would have just made it up. Basically, this is what happens....

You get up at 5 : 30 am and beg Lei to take you to Planet Hollywood in Vegas where the Tour begins. We had to be there at 6 : 30 am in order to get booked in and on the bus. Helen, Rob and myself were very grateful to Lei when she dropped us off just after 6 : 30am. We registered and picked up some doughnuts, got on the bus wondering how on earth we would survive the 5 hour journey to the Grand Canyon. Answer, we slept. Rob watched a film on Las Vegas and its history, followed by one on The Canyon... we were oblivious and slept well. The landscape is very much the same so I stopped thinking I was missing something and decided on a good kip!

That was the right thing to do as we had, had a late night seeing The Blue Men on Tuesday night. Lei and i thought it was very creative and enjoyable. It was at The Venetian Hotel... something to see if you ever get to Vegas as it has a ceiling that looks like real sky, so you are walking around as if you are really in Venice during the day. They have upmarket buskers who play opera and musicals. i sat for ages with an ice cream, listening to them. There are gondola rides around a canal... a bit too much for me in all ways! (Price and that it is a concrete canal!)

Anyway to continue, we met a couple from Castleford and the husband had worked at Kellingley Colliery with Bob and a friend of ours - John Evans-  its a small world!

I managed to find a great Camping Park for the motorhome - 2 nights in The Grand Canyon... so it will be good to see it with more time. In any case Rob, Helen and I went to two viewpoints.. and they were absolutely awe inspiring views and cannot be appreciated on photos as the views are panoramic and vast so I will leave you with a couple. The Grand Canyon is around 277 miles in length with The Colorado River running through the base. They do mule treks to bottom...which has a long term effect on the bottom I would imagine as they go 11 miles down and back!!!! Also there are river trips - white water rafting and camping from 3 days to 3 weeks. That sounded fun to Helen and Rob.

After a rest in the lodge we set off back and watched a film called 21... about a young  student who took Vegas for a lot of money. 5 hours back. Lei picked us up at 9 : 00pm and we went back to her famous spaghetti Bolognaise mmmmmmm....

The day had tired us all... especially Lei!! What had she been doing (obviously not watching 21 learning how to take Vegas for alot of money)?