Well, I’m back from the Grand Canyon.  I was dead tired by the time we got home, but it was a lot of fun.  It’s a tad nerve wracking to have a two year old 6 inches from a 3,000 foot drop.  So we probably won’t go back til the kids are a bit older.  Like 30.  But I do want to go back and hike and stuff.  It was beautiful and the weather was perfect.

Ok, great… but how much did we spend?

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We spent a grand total of $250.  Aww yeah.  I don’t have the receipts in front of me but it broke down to about $100 on gas, $100 on food, and $50 on trinkets and gifts.

My dad took us all on a helicopter tour.  Wow… it was a big hit.  Seriously, so much fun.  It cost $250 per person but it’s something we will never forget.   I don’t think my two year old will ever be the same.  He liked helicopters before, but now it’s all he talks about.  He even woke up from his nap today telling us how he went on a helicopter while he was sleeping and saw the “big rocks”.   I would love to take him on another one some day.  I did some Googling and they do helicopter tours of Phoenix for about $150.  Which is a lot, but maybe for a birthday or something some day.  It would be really cool.

Some fancy facts:

The Grand Canyon is 255 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and 5000 feet deep.  It started forming 6 million years ago.  Water from the North Rim flows into the canyon, while water from the south rim flows away from the canyon, this causes the canyon to erode rather than fill with water.  About 5 million people visit the Grand Canyon each year.  Which breaks down to about 13,700 a day.

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