GRAND CANYON

Last Friday was Porter's Annual Grand Canyon Field trip! It was once a trip that was an overnight event but as the years have past they have limited it to a one day trip. As you can imagine that is a huge task in just one day. Since it was only going to be one full day I decide to have the grand idea to go as a chaperon. At first it seemed like a great idea, but soon turned into a scheduling nightmare. I had a sitter all lined up. The kids all were taken care of and I had paid the money to go. Then as my girlfriends and I were talking about all the upcoming events we all had to attend and exchanging babysitting offers I realized my sitter was going to be on a Field trip with her daughter the very day I needed her. I had also offered to watch another friends child. It was a mess! I racked my brain and pretty much everyone of my friends were busy that day. So my very awesome husband saved the day by staying home from work. Not a common happening in my world but so appreciated.

So that morning we loaded up the bus and off we went. We stopped at Montezuma Castle and had our snack and potty break. We also had this great scavenger hunt that the teachers had created for us to do with our groups. We were each given a camera and we had to take pictures of our entire group with various things in the picture. Ex. Take a pic with a park Ranger. They even had one where you had to lift you leader of the ground entirely! Who do you think they picked for that one. ME. The downfall for being a light person. After our snack we then drove to the Canyon. We had a small hike down in the canyon and then we had the chance to visit the area. My group chose the ice cream shop! The wind was blowing really hard and Alyssa's ice cream actually fell off her cone!

All in all it was an awesome time and I so enjoyed the time with Alyssa. All her friends were great and no one misbehaved at all. We had a great group of kids and had a blast. The only thing I could have wished for was a bit more time. We all loaded up once again and went to Flagstaff for pizza. Then we were off to the long trip home. Its too bad they say that was the last trip because Alex will be in the 6Th grade next year and we really wanted to go to that one too. Maybe we can hope for the best and get them to do it again. We will see!