July 6th
Arizona
Today we arrived in Williams, AZ. Our stopping point for visiting the Grand Canyon. We parked our trailer at the Canyon Motel & RV Park. Its a really cute park with train cars for cabins. Totally makes sense that someone would have a train themed rv park as Williams, AZ is where you catch the train to the Grand Canyon.
After parking the trailer, we stopped in at Bearizona. Our second drive through animal park. Brian was very interested in the Wolves and Bears. Sean was on the lookout for Bison. He has his new favorite joke that involves them. I will try to get him on video so you can chuckle along. After the park, we headed over to our hotel and then took a horse drawn carriage ride around Williams and ate at Pancho McGillicuddy’s.
We stayed at the Grand Canyon Hotel which is also where we caught the train as well. We had purchased a package as we also wanted to take a bus tour of the Canyon. We booked the observation car and I highly recommend it if you decide to take a similar trip. We lucked out and there were only 3 other people in the same part of the car so we stretched out.
Once we arrived at the Grand Canyon we hopped onto our tour bus. I was surprised that our tour guide wasn’t very good. Usually you get someone chatty who gives out lots of bits of information that you may not already know. All she really told us was to wait til the bus stopped for pictures as its not worth taking pictures through the windows when the pictures will be better off the bus.
Brian bravely led the way when we walked along the rim. Sean discovered that he doesn’t like heights. This from the kid who loves roller coasters. I can understand the difference as the coasters strap you in. Sean continually fretted about getting too close to the edge and Brian kept trying to get him to at least get near the fence.
You will notice in the pictures that Brian took several, including several of himself. First set are from Bearizona, second set is of Williams, AZ and the last set is the Canyon and train ride.
