The Fifth Dimension...

For my birthday, Donna and I cavorted up to Grand Canyon a couple weekends ago. I'll just echo everyone else in saying it is amazing. We hit several different view points on the rim, and it was unbelievable from every single spot.The obligatory landscape shot.

That's some kind of Grandness.

Ranger Allyson showed us around during a couple of geology walks around the rim. We learned, first and foremost, that there is no "The" in the name. To locals, it's just Grand Canyon. Donna thought Allyson was yelling at her the whole time, but really she just talked really loud because she was used to working with 50-60 people, not 15. It was kind of like a science field trip with a PE teacher.Height, width, and depth are the physical dimensions of Grand Canyon. Allyson also talked about time as the fourth dimension and a fifth dimension: the spirituality of Grand Canyon. Possibly biblical, mostly hokey.

On the way back, we elected to stop at Flintstone Bedrock City. For the low low price of $4 dollars, we were able to walk around a poorly maintained gravel lot populated by various pastel-painted stucco structures. The best part was the "goatasaurus". It's life-like environment looked like someone wrapped up a bunch of wire coat hangers and nailed them to the open part of a shed. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but Fred can't pick either.

Yeah.

We saw several signs around the rim basically indicating that young, athletic looking men are falling into Grand Canyon all time and getting stuck. I wanted to make sure I wasn't at risk. You make the call. Deep down, we all want to be like Legolas. Right Andrew?

Apparently, Grand Canyon is the most popular tourist destination in the world, so I'm sure there will be other blogs that speak of it much more eloquently. But really, does anybody do natural wonders like the Flying Zehrings?