Danny update, Four Corners, Grand Canyon

Yesterday, we took a long 8 hour drive to Williams, AZ. Since Danny and I were at ER till 5am, we were exhausted. I slept 2 hours, while Danny slept until about 11am when we needed to check out of our camping space. Danny had times before we left that appeared his stomach still hurt, but not nearly as bad as the night before. Just once in awhile he would complain. Do we stay, take him back to ER or hit the road knowing that we were looking at a 4 hour strength of no medical care. We chose to hit the road. Danny slept at least 2 of those hours which worked out great. And he did some snoozing off and on on during the next 2 hours along with playing Hangman on the laptop with Karly.

Our main stop along the way was Four Corners. This is where you can be in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico at the same time. That is if you are using your hands. Or your friend could be in Utah while you are in New Mexico and holding hands.

We pulled into Grand Canyon Railroad camping and were a little disappointed in the “parking lot” type rv park. We also decided not to go on the train ride since the last one was so much fun (yikes!) for most of us. It did cost us to cancel our tickets, but it gained us some sanity. The campground has a very nice store, playground, barbeque area and horseshoe pits. The major problem with it was that it was across a busy main road from the campground. The kids could not walk or ride bikes alone to it like all other campgrounds we stay at.

FOURTH OF JULY! Got up early and found a cute little cafe on Route 66 that we had a yummy breakfast(Dan said it was the best dining out meal we had on the trip) and some espresso and hit the open highway to the Grand Canyon. We stood at one of the viewing points, took pictures and said “ooohhh” and “aaahhh”. Also, the standard, “don’t climb the fence!” as we look down an immediate drop to death. Do you see me rolling my eyes and more gray hair appearing?

Visitor center was the same as all the other National Parks in the way of their merchandise. It was the nicest, cleanest, most informative and newest by far of all the others. But, by now, we were all pretty much done with looking at rocks and saying “ooohhh” and “aaahhh”. We hoped back in the truck and back to camp we came.

BTW… we are all drinking much more fluids than we have been before. Could have been part of Danny’s problem, so we are on top of it now.

Dan is over at the playground with Danny and Karly while I write my last blog while out on the road and upload pics. We think we are going to hit the road this afternoon. Dan is still not feeling good and just wants to go home. We all are on the same page as him. We were also notified that there are no fireworks this year here in Williams. That’s a drag. There is a cute small town parade, but it’s 100+ degrees here and who wants to sit and watch a parade in this heat?

Check out our pics here of the last two days.

Danny update: Doing great! Looks great! Acts great!(well, that is under observation – he is an active 6 year old boy) He is getting lots of fluids and good, healthy food. He purchased this duck that when you squeeze it’s tummy, it quacks… the deal is everytime he does that he drinks water. Been working out great. I also remind him every 5 minutes to have a drink.

BTW… latest report at 1:30pm… it is raining here with lightening and thunder. It feels so awesome with the 100+ heat.

What memories we have created. We’ve also grown in many ways too as a family and each other’s struggles with our own “issues”. Future note: Do not bring DS’s and all the electrical toys. Except my computer of course. hee hee… Hope to see our friends and family very soon!