Grand Canyon Halloween

While you all were out-and-about trick-or-treating (or trunk-or-treating) we were on our way to the Grand Canyon this year.

As you can imagine, Halloween at our house is no fun. With Ben and Zach severely allergic to peanuts and nuts, we have started a small tradition that gets us out of the loop. A few years back, we took the kids to Legoland and this year we checked out the Grand Canyon Railway. What a BLAST!

We left Tuesday after school and arrived at Williams AZ around 8pm. There was plenty of time for supper, swimming and jumping on the beds! We swam them all till 10:45, showered, jumped on the beds and got to bed by 11:30. Wednesday morning at 8am Glenn started roll-call and shouted, "Everybody up!" The response was, "Dad, let us sleep a little bit longer."
WOW!
I wonder what would have happened if we would have gotten them into bed after midnight!?!?

Breakfast was at 8:30 the next morning and then off to the shoot-out! The shoot-out left us all hanging... the robbers would "take the train" during the day, we just never new when. Lo-and-behold... on the way back home from the Grand Canyon, there they were!

OK - so, after breakfast and the shoot-out we enjoyed a 2 1/2 hour train ride over to the Grand Canyon. There we saw deer, mountain goats, squirrels and such a beautiful site! The Grand Canyon looked like a picture, until you got close to the edge... then reality HIT!

The boys enjoyed hiking and just looking at the Canyon! It is such a wonderful site. We ate our lunch and got back on the train around 3:45.



The train ride was full of fiddlers and guitar-players that kept us all stampin' our feet and clappin' our hands!


About 3 miles from home, the robbers were spotted outside the train... we were gonna' be robbed! They entered, told silly jokes and then demanded our $$$.





As they looked at our family, they decided to leave us alone. "They're gonna' need all the $$$ they have to raise these kids." They didn't want to mess with us alrighty!




We arrived back at Williams about 5:45 and headed on for Mesa. It didn't take long before we heard snoring and saw this sweet sight... but before the snoring Zach stated, "Dad, that was the BEST Halloween ever!" I agreed and said, "What should we plan for next year?" Nick replied, "How about the Egyptian Pyramids!" AUGH! We better start savin' our $$$!