We made the trip to Williams, AZ – the city where the train that is going to take us to the Grand Canyon is located.  We got there in the afternoon and my sister and mom went to check-in at the hotel while I was ‘docking’ the RV.  When Zoe and Mom came back to pick us up – they were riding in a horse carriage.  When the guy said ‘backwards step’ the horse would actually do a backwards step!  I thought that was pretty cool.  And then we went to eat at a buffet – it was surprisingly good.  After that me, my brother and my sister went swimming at the hotel room.  After that I had to go back to the RV in a wet bathing suit.  I was freezing my butt off while my brother was like ‘let’s go to the playground, let’s go to the playground’ and I said ‘I’m freezing my butt off, no’ and then Zach is like ‘Ya, that is the whole point’.  We went directly to the RV where I took a hot shower and then we watched an episode of Different Strokes.

The next morning we got up, went back to the buffet and then went to the gun show.  It was a pretty cool and fake gun show but right before it ended one of the guys fell in horse poop after being fake shot.  After that he stood back up and then fell a different way.  After that, we took Lucky to the kennel, went back to the RV and then had to sprint full speed to the train.  It was pretty fun.  We met a really nice guy who was basically our server.  We would go down from the ‘Grand View’ and then we would turn and it was like the place to get the ‘free’ food was hidden.  You could get Coke, Sprite, Diet Coke, apples, oranges, bananas and there were these cookie things.  It was a really nice day.  Me, my brother and my sister played Top Trumps.

Then we got to the Grand Canyon, we took a bus tour and then after 3 minutes I had to go to the bathroom.  There was a 5 minute line and then I went. I ran out of the bathroom and I tripped and fell and hurt my knee.  It was bleeding and it really hurt.  After that we had a really nice person take a picture of us and then we had to leave.  And then we went to another view of the Grand Canyon except just another spot.  After the tour we went to dinner at El Tovar.  They had okay food.  And then we went back to our hotel and went to sleep.

We woke up at 4 something to see the sunrise.  It was at 5:18.  It was really cool.  Before the sun was up, the Grand Canyon looked like a lake and then when the sun was up it was about 1 mile down and then hundreds of miles long.  After that we went to eat breakfast at El Tovar.  It wasn’t open yet so we played American trivia.  And then we got a seat next to the window.  It was an okay breakfast.  After we left me and my mom went to get candy while my brother and sister and dad went on a hike.  While we were walking back to get the candy me and my mom saw 5 or 8 mule dear behind our hotel.  And then we met up with my Dad, Brother and Sister then we went on a fossil hike.  There was a ranger guy named Ty and he was really nice.  We found hundreds of fossils on the hike.  It looked like there was a little tiny baby dog, but it was actually something that worms made.  Then he swore us in for our junior ranger badge.  The we hiked back down and went to a store and got badges that we could sow on to our clothing.  (I have a loose tooth).  Then it started hailing and then we went to El Tovar to eat (AGAIN).  Then we went to the train and then I spied on these two fake robbers that were on train.  And then the robber came up and said ‘give me all of your valuables’.  After the robber came we got back to the train station and went to get lucky.   He was very happy to see us.  He licked us bunches.  One of the guys who shot the guy into the horse poop gave us one of his broken, shot bullets and it was also a whistle.  Then we got on the RV and left to come to whatever this place is [Page, AZ].

On the drive to our next spot we watched the hockey game and one or two other shows.  After that, I fell asleep with my dog on the floor almost under the table.  And I don’t remember the rest of the day because I was asleep.