DRIVING TOWARD ARIZONA WE COULD SEE A LARGE MOUNTAIN IN THE DISTANCE AND IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS STORMING OVER THERE. WE WERE HOPING WE WEREN'T GOING THAT WAY!!
I TOLD DARRELL THIS IS AS CLOSE TO SNOW AS I EVER WANT TO GET!!
WE WERE FINALLY IN ARIZONA!! BY THE TIME WE REACHED FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA YOU COULD HAVE SWORN YOU WERE IN THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
WE REACHED WILLIAMS, ARIZONA AROUND 3:30.
GRAND CANYON RAILWAY RV PARK IS A BEAUTIFUL RV PARK. IT HAD PAVED STREETS, SIDEWALKS, AND STREET LIGHTS. WE FELT RIGHT UPTOWN!! WHEN WE CHECKED IN THE LADY TOOK US BACK TO THE PET RESORT, WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE RV PARK, AND SHOWED US WHERE MAGGIE AND MARLEE WILL BE STAYING THE DAY WE GO ON THE TRAIN. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PET RESORT, FIRST CLASS. WE FOUND OUT THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO BRING THE GIRL'S CRATES FOR THEM, SO THIS WILL BE "THEIR HOME AWAY FROM HOME".
THE NEXT MORNING WE HEADED OUT TO SEE WHAT WILLIAMS HAD TO OFFER.
WE WERE DELIGHTED TO FIND A SAFEWAY STORE, THE ONLY GROCERY STORE IN TOWN.
BEFORE WE LEFT SOUTH DAKOTA, CLINT AND NIKKI GAVE US A GIFT CARD FOR SAFEWAY, WE HAD PLANNED TO USE IT ON THE ROAD, BUT SINCE LEAVING SOUTH DAKOTA, WE HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND A SAFEWAY STORE. SO, WE WENT IN AND STOCKED UP ON MEAT!
FINALLY THE DAY HAD ARRIVED TO SEE THE GRAND CANYON.... A DAY WE HAD BEEN PLANNING SINCE REALIZING THIS IS ON THE WAY TO WASHINGTON.
WE WERE TOLD TO HAVE MAGGIE AND MARLEE AT THE PET RESORT BY 8:30. I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS, AS THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME WE HAD LEFT THEM SINCE LEAVING HOME IN 2011, BUT ON ARRIVAL THE LADIES THERE WERE VERY COMPETANT AND LOVING.......
MAGGIE AND MARLEE SEEMED TO SETTLE RIGHT IN AND I DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT THEM ALL DAY.....WE WERE OFF TO SEE THE SEVENTH NATURAL WONDER OF THE WORLD!!
BEFORE THE TRAIN LEFT AT 9:30, THERE WAS A WILD WEST SHOOTOUT.......
WE WENT FROM THERE TO THE TRAIN DEPOT, WHERE WE WOULD BE ON THE SECOND TRAIN.
THE FIRST TRAIN PULLED OUT.......
AND THEN IT WAS ALL ABOARD!!!!!
IT WOULD TAKE TWO HOURS TO GET TO THE SOUTH RIM.....
SO, WE SETTLED IN AND ENJOYED SOME LIVE ENTERTAINMENT....
AND BEFORE LONG WE WERE AT THE SOUTH RIM......AND IT TOOK MY BREATH AWAY!!
IT WAS AMAZING HOW THE CANYON CHANGED AS THE LIGHT CHANGED....
.....WE WALKED AND WALKED AND LOOKED AND LOOKED...IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
TODAY WAS THE WARMEST DAY ALL WEEK, A PERFECT SIXTY SIX DEGREES.
THE TRAIN WAS DEPARTING AT 3:30, WE WERE TIRED, BUT I HAD TO TAKE ONE LAST LOOK........
AND HERE COMES THE TRAIN.....
AND WITH SING ALONGS AND MORE ENTERTAINMENT....WE HAD A BALL!!
WE WERE EVEN ROBBED BY WILD WEST BANDITS!!
AND I FOUND OUT TODAY THAT " LIFE IS NOT MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF BREATHS WE TAKE, BUT BY THE MOMENTS THAT TAKE OUR BREATH AWAY."
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