Apr 05

The Grand Canyon Tour

Posted by Stella on Tuesday Apr 5, 2011 Under Travels

Friday, April first, we woke up and were ready for the the second day in the Grand Canyon. We were in such a hurry to get to the tour that we didn’t notice until we got there that Ana, wearing five of her junior ranger badges, was definitely ready to get her sixth. We all had a great laugh at the way she wore her badges. She looked pretty hilarious.
Check out this picture of Ana and her unorderly pattern of junior ranger badges.

Ana with her Junior Ranger badges

Here is a picture of the awesome Grand Canyon from the amazing view of the rim.

The Grand Canyon from the rim

We headed off to the tour and it started! We walked along the edge of the canyon and the tour guide showed us lots of juniper trees and a yucca cactus. A yucca plant is like a huge ball of spikes with swirly, curly fiber strings. One thing we learned about the yucca is you can use the fiber to make rope, baskets, and sandals. We learned the yucca plant is used in shampoos.

Yucca plant

A juniper tree is a tall, stringy, hairy-barked desert tree with bright green leaves. We learned you can use the bark for a diaper. Here’s a picture so you can see what it looks like.

Juniper Tree

3 Responses to “The Grand Canyon Tour”

  1. GrandMom Becky Says:
    April 6th, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    Glad they remove the pointy parts when they create a shampoo.
    Wonder how many Ranger buttons Ana will gather on your adventure! It will be interesting to count them when you get back to Kentucky.

  2. Greta Says:
    April 20th, 2011 at 11:03 am

    I know- imagine spiky shampoo! 😀 Ana started off putting ALL her badges on her vest, but now we don’t know where some of them go… hopefully she’ll do better at keeping track of them..

  3. brynn Says:
    April 7th, 2011 at 10:14 am

    that YUCCA PLANT is AWESOME!!!! 🙂 🙂

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