The Adventures of Sock Monkey Episode 5: Over the River and Through the Woods, to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon We Go Day 1

   I send greetings from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon! Umm... I really don't know what to say so let's get to it!

   We left our house at 8:30 in the morning and headed north towards the Grand Canyon. The drive took 4 1/2 hours before we finally reached the Grand Canyon (after a few pit stops, of course...) and we enjoyed the scenery while we waited for our room to be cleaned. See pictures of scenery/Sock Monkey below. 

I didn't know that fire hydrants have ears...

I see you!

Our cabin/HQ

Can you spot the sock monkey?

And a sock monkey in a pine tree!

Can you see me?

 We also stopped by the desk in the lodge where we got our super awesome ninja gear (just kidding) for the mule ride that we were going to do. If you want to know, the hotel we are staying in is called the Bright Angel Lodge and it's in the national park. See below.

Now Arriving At: Bright Angel Lodge

Care for a drink (that tastes like lemons and plastic)?

 When our room finally opened, we dropped off our luggage and extra stuff, and then we went back outside to walk around and enjoy the Grand Canyon in its hugeness. We watched the sunset while we cooked our dinner in a rice cooker and made our cabin and everything twenty feet around it smell like Alfredo chicken, and then went back into the cabin to relax after sitting in the car for a super long time and to eat dinner. Quick suggestion, bring warm clothes because after dark, it gets cold. And I mean five-jackets-and-two-shirts-and-I'm-still-freezing cold. So dress warm, people of earth and intergalactic space! But I digress. After we finished our dinner, we took a moonlight walk, and since there is almost no light pollution, you can see a ton of stars. But it was still cold. All in all, the day wasn't super action-packed (unfortunately...). But that's okay! The fun part is to come! So, one day down, two more to go! Any questions, comments, sarcastic remarks, anything, please check out the comment board. Other than that, I'm done for the first day so thanks for reading!