Sunday, June 22, 2008

THE GRAND CANYON

For our vacation a while ago, we went to the Grand Canyon. The first day we walked around and were stunned by the canyon. On the second day we rode down the Grand Canyon on mules. my mules name was Smirfy. It was terrifing. The path was really small and the drop was really big! I was the first one since I was the youngest. I was behind the rangler who was testing out a new mule who spooked really easily so the made me even more nervous. And to top it all off at the very beginning when I was the most scared, we saw 2 deer in our path. The rangler said that they like to run inbetween the mules so we had to keep our mules really close together. My mule was being really sturborn and wouldn't get close enough to the other mule in front of me. Thank god the deer ran away but I was still terrified. Once we got to the bottom we had lunch on a peak over looking the Colorodo river. It was a 6 hour hike on a sturborn mules back and once you got off the mule it feels like your legs are molded to the mules back and you can't move them. It was great and I don't think I am afraid of heights anymore!! Oh and just to let you know these people on the mules are not us it was a pic on the internet. It is just to give you an idea of how high we were : )

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Shaye, you are the best at telling the stories of our travels. Hope your butt has recovered.