Room+5A

Tiffany & Rachel's Grand Canyon Photo Journal 2011 The Grand Canyon was our first stop on our trip.We had an AMAZING time! It was absolutely beautiful, the weather was nice, and there was so many different things to look and learn about. When you look out into The Grand Canyon you see you many gorgeous colors, it looks as if you were looking at a painting. The first thing we did at The Grand Canyon was hike on the Bright Angel Trail into the Grand Canyon, while we where on our hike our tour guide taught us alot of interesting facts about The Grand Canyon. After we went about a 1/2 of a mile we walked back up to take a scenic hike on the South Kaibab trail along the South Rim. First our tour guide talked about the Grand Canyon and how the rocks we were sitting on had fossils and shells inside them, because that layer was once covered entirely by the ocean. It was SO cool ! I thought that going to the Grand Canyon was am amazing experience, everything about it was truly amazing and it ended up being nothing like I expected. I loved going on the hike and all the activity's we did there where so much fun ! :) ** Facts about The Grand Canyon: **
 * The Grand Canyon is located in the state of Arizona
 * It's 277 river miles (446 km) long
 * Up to 18 miles (29 km) wide
 * Attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet / 1,800 metres)
 * Carved by the Colorado River

After the Grand Canyon we went on a relaxing and educational raft ride. This was a once in a lifetime chance to get a little wet and glare at the natural beauty of the Colorado River and all of the historical drawings and shapes nature makes over time into the cliffs of the canyon. The opportunity to be right at the base of the dam and look up to the top, knowing that Lake Powell was lapping at the concrete on the other side was an eye-opening experience. We motored out into the river and then began our float through the beautiful canyon. We rafted around the (I believe to be called) boot canyon and had some fun splashing in the water and having simple little races with the other rafts carrying our schoolmates attending the trip with us. We learned so much and we occasionally stopped and our tour guide/raft driver pointed out some cool shapes hidden in the walls of the canyon. We both thought this raft ride was so much fun! Tiffany and I both got a little wet but, Rachel (me) got soaked because I walked into the water. Over all it was a fun raft ride that was fun and educational!


 * Facts about the Colorado River & Glen Canyon:**
 * Colorado River covers 246,000 sq mi(640,000 km[|2]) in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states
 * Elevation :10,184 ft (3,104 m)
 * The Glen Canyon Dam is the second largest dam on the Colorado River
 * Height of The Glen Cayon Dam : 710 feet (216 m)
 * Contains 4,901,000 cubic yards (3,747,000 m³) of concrete.



Wupatki National Monument is an old Indian made village that has many interesting red-ish, brick buildings with no windows or roofs and circular play areas in which sports were played. All though this place is not allowed to be fully examined by tourist it has much valuable information that old and young minds absorb in a short fun amount of time walking into this monument. While we were at this national monument we walked around with our partners/groups or by ourselves. Before we roamed, we walked down to one of two circular play areas in which the old residents use to play sports. We also sat down in a circle in the play area and learned many interesting facts upon the area in which we were sitting. Tiffany and I, both agreed that W.N.M. was a beautiful place that is a great tourist attraction that has an extreme amount of useful information. We also thought that it was a fun place for kids to have a blast back into history!
 * Facts about Wupatki National Monument :**


 * Less than 800 years ago, Wupatki Pueblo was the largest pueblo around.
 * It was a 100-room pueblo with a community room and ball court; making it the largest building for nearly fifty miles.
 * Area : 35,254 acres (142 km²)
 * Established in December 9, 1924

The last place we went to during our trip was Sunset Crater. Sunset crater was a large area filled by volcanoes,volcanic rocks, and cinders. Our tour guide told us that the reason they call it Sunset Crater is because the last cinders that came out of the volcano were orange,yellow,and red. So if you were looking down into the volcano it almost looks like there's a sunset around it. When we where at Sunset Crater we took a tour of the national monument and got to see alot of volcanic rocks, and an awesome ice cave ! We thought that going on the hike was really fun. We have never visited a volcano, so it was pretty cool that we got to see an actual volcano and gain a better understand of volcano's. **Facts about Sunset Crater:**
 * Sunset Crater was born in a series of eruptions sometime between 1040 and 1100.
 * It's a one-mile loop through this amazing volcanic landscape.
 * Sunset Crater is a volcanic cinder cone located north of Flagstaff.
 * Elevation: 8,042 ft (2,451 m)\