There are lizards everywhere! Sam is in heaven trying to chase them!!
We woke up and did two Ranger programs as a family. We did one about the rocks of the GC. The ranger was animated and had us all doing hand motions. "Layer upon layer..." The kids will always remember that! Afterwards, we raced over to another program. Molly became our favorite ranger so far on our trip across the country! She tricked us, but we laughed and even came back the next day to do it again! You will have to watch the video to see what Chris did, after we knew the trick, but the rest of the group did not! On her ranger hike, Chris walked into a tree ( don't ask!) and scratched below his eye up bad. He is okay though! In the afternoon, we waited for Deb and Rick Spencer, Hope and Faith to arrive. They were also going to the GC! About an hour after they arrived, the kids began playing ninja of course. Beca was so in to it, she fell and twisted her ankle. There is a picture below the second before she fell. We iced it and she was out of commission for the day. Bummer. Later, we did drag her around in our famous red wagon. The kids all pulled her. It was funny! I wonder what people thought! She stayed off her foot, but still wanted to be part of everything. Se hobbled around. She ended up being a fine a few days later. She hobbles, but is fine. In the afternoon, we went on the long Desert View Drive to the Watchtower. It was so amazing out there! Here is some background info....there is a fire burning on the North Rim. We are on the South Rim, but there is a burn ban. BUT...we did not know that before we arrived at GC. We had planned burgers for dinner, luckily we had cooked them before we left Flagstaff. Ther are no microwaves at GC either.....this is getting funnier....we drove the long drive to the Watchtower...and put our burgers on the engine of the SUV when we arrived for an hour! BUT they fell, some of them anyway...then it was SO windy, with gusts of 55 mph....so all our food was blown away for dinner as we ate it. It was funny. We did eat, but we were hungry still afterward. It was still really nice to be with the Spencer's and laugh about it. There is a picture of Chris reaching desperately down into the engine to get our lost burgers. Funny thing, the next day we saw a squirrel go up into the SUV.......hmmmm?! I will post the trick video with our new favorite ranger the next day.
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