Still at the Grand Canyon!

We are still enjoying the Grand Canyon.  Yesterday we took the shuttle to the Market Plaza and had lunch at the Yavapai Lodge cafeteria.   We looked around the gift shop before heading over to the canyon!  We walked around the Village, the Kolb bookshop and then decided we needed ice cream!  We sat on the porch at the El Tovar and ate our ice cream watching two Hopi Indians do their native dance and play the flute in their native costumes!  All that and the Grand Canyon backdrop to boot!

We took the shuttle back to the campground before the rain started and then jumped in the truck and headed out of the park to the Imax Theatre.  They are showing the "Grand Canyon Movie".  We had not seen it before.  It depicts the trip Powell took 277 miles down river through the canyon with a group of boats.  I think three of the boats made it.  One group got off the boat after a bad rapid and never made it out.  One boat was lost in a rapid.  The pictures of the canyon are breathtaking and definitely worth the price of admission (especially at the senior rate...lol)! 

This morning we've been a little lazy!  We saw a doe at the campground and I took a picture of her:

It really is a doe, the first picture looks like she had horns but it is just the bush on the side of the road!  Usually we see lots of deer here but not this trip.

We are going over to the Market Plaza and probably a last view of the Canyon in a few minutes.  We leave here tomorrow and will go south to Verde Valley which is south of Flagstaff.  We hope it will be cool there.  We've had beautiful weather here at the Canyon.  Can't remember if we have good cell service there or not! 

Wildlife, canyons and ice cream..."Ain't Life Grand!"