Relaxation Day- September 27

We woke up at 6:45, a late morning so far. Today we decided to take a rest day. Between the Hermit's Rest hike and the bike ride, a break for our flatland muscles was in order.

We had a nice breakfast at the Cafeteria and relaxed at the campsite for a little bit.

We then took the Blue Route to the Visitor's Center and caught the Orange Route out to the Yavapai Geological Museum. It was pretty interesting.

To me, the majesty of God is not lessened a bit if it took billions of years and the formation of the canyon took millions. Its still awe-inspiring in its majesty.

We had an Englishman (or at least spoke English natively with an accent) take our picture. He asked where we were from and we said Peoria, IL. He'd been to Chicago (of course) and asked how far it was.

We said about 2.5 hours. He laughed and said "You American's measuring things in hours. In two and a half hours I'd be out of the country."

We walked the Rim Trail, nice and paved and smooth, back to the Visitor's Center a caught the shuttle out to Yaki Point.

I sat on a rock and jotted some notes as a squirrel begged for food. (I didn't give him any.)

It was a beautiful view of the canyon. I'm not sure language, at least English, can capture the beauty of the canyon anymore than a camera can capture the true beauty of the sunset.

After doing some laundry and reading for a bit we caught the shuttle back to Yaki Point to watch the sunset. We walked out to some rocks and as we sat waiting for the sun to set some packrats kept attempting to get into our backpacks. They obviously thought something tasty was inside.

The sunset was gorgeous, though I get gipped with the whole "colors" aspect of it. Katrina learned a $200 digital camera can't begin to capture the beauty of a sunset.

We got back to camp after dark and I cooked up some Dinty Moore beef stew for supper. Its amazingly tasty when you are camping. Not really any other time though. Bed happened around 8:30.