Our first stop on Saturday was the South Rim Visitor Center
to watch a movie about the canyon. Then
we headed up to the Yavapai Observation Station to get another view of the
canyon. Abby didn’t lose her enthusiasm
about riding the shuttle. She would hold
up her fingers each time to let us know how many shuttle trips we had made.
By about 11:30 we felt like we had seen all that the Grand
Canyon had to offer, so we headed out.
We stopped at Navajo Bridge. It
was 108 degrees outside and we didn't really want to get out of the car, but we
did. It was cool to walk out on the
bridge and look down over the river gorge.
We checked in at our hotel in Page, changed, and headed out
to the beach. We never go boating on
Saturdays because the beach is always super crowded. Somehow when I was making up our vacation
schedule, it didn't occur to me that Lake Powell beaches would be super crowded
on Saturdays too. Oops. After a little delay at the entry booth, we
managed to find our own little spot of sand on the beach and had fun playing
with the kids on the beach for a few hours.
They built sand castles, swam out to the buoys with Nate, and played with
the frisbee and water football. There
was a Navajo family next to us on the beach and Ben said “I think that’s the
family that sold us the frybread!” Nope
Ben, that was 80 miles away.
When we got back to the hotel, the kids wanted to check out the pool. It was tiny and the water was freezing cold, but they didn't want to pass up the opportunity to swim in a hotel pool. Nate was a good dad and took them swimming. I just wanted to hang out in the room and watch some cable TV. Unfortunately, we stayed on a night when their cable was out and wifi was down so I couldn't even stream something on the laptop. It was not my favorite, but Nate did get them to knock $25 off our bill because of it.
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