Grand Canyon Day

Well.....it's been a few days since we were able to blog. By the time we get to a place to crash, we are to tired to get on the laptop!
Since my last post we've seen SO much.....it was a very long drive through Texas but so cool. Then into New Mexico. We were amazed at how beautiful both states were. For miles and miles and miles we were on the straightest road you can imagine, not one bend and the sky is just huge....everything is so flat and you can see for miles. We stopped one night in the middle of the road, not a person or house for miles and so dark outside...no lights anywhere around for ever any direction you turn.....except for the stars in the sky. Millions of stars that were so bright...we have NEVER seen anything like it! We just stood in the middle of the road in amazement.
In New Mexico we drove through Cloudcroft where the elevation was almost 10 thousand feet and the air was so thin and crisp....the temp dropped from 107 to 61 !!!
We went to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico....it's about a 2.5 mile hike....DOWN! into the cavern.
We then drove the rest of the day and night and took turns driving and sleeping. Before Flagstaff we drove the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest. It is indescribable...pictures cannot even capture how breathtaking it is. We arrived in Williams Arizona...just an hour after Flagstaff. We got a hotel room early in the day, washed clothes, sat around the pool and just relaxed. Curt had only had about 2 hours sleep inside of 48 hours at that point. We went and ate at an authentic mexican restaurant in the cool little town of Williams...the town below the Grand Canyon. By this time it was only 7pm and we were asleep by 7:30!
This morning after breakfast we are on our way up the hill to the Grand Canyon!!
We miss you all and will post more later!
Remind me to tell you about Curt's encoundter with the border patrol...guns drawn!!!!