Honeymoon Day 7 - Grand Canyon, AZ (17 November, 2005)

We woke up early to get to the airport and take a helicopter ride around the Grand Canyon. Laura got a window - I got the hump...back seat - middle. To make it worse, I was sat next to a guy that everyone thought (including the check-in folks) was a total ass. Nevertheless, both Laura and I could see very well and the experience was fantastic...especially the first time we raced out over the canyon.

Once the flight was over, we drove the length of the south rim to Desert View and began working our way back at a leisurely pace (and in the interim bagged a number of license plates including Deutschland - some guy riding his motorcycle across the country).

We had to be in Flagstaff later to meet Laura's friend Lisa and her husband Tom at a Mexican restaurant none of us had ever been to, but according to the Internet (and our friend David), Casa Bonita has the best Mexican food in Denver, Colorado. The one in Flagstaff, Arizona's pretty good too.

We got back to the hotel (Bright Angel Lodge - historic cabin 6171) at around 11:00pm

The National Park Service was performing a controlled burn in the Kaibab Forest and at night as we drove by we could see the flames very clearly - one tree was completely enclosed in flame and we both wished we had brought our cameras.