Day 7 (May 3rd)
Today was the day I conquered all! I hiked the Grand Canyon. I was quite pleased with myself at the end of the day. It meant a lot for me. I now feel that my knee is strong enough to do anything!! Well the hike down was good, all down hill so it hurt the knees a fair bit. But everyone's knees were the same. We had lunch in the Indian Gardens. We met a group from SFU there, a bunch of Geology students. They had 1 girl and the rest guys, so the girl broke off from her group to hang out with us for the rest of the hike. She said it was awesome, since she was tired of being "one of the guys". She was a sweet girl. Anyway, we saw the mules come down while we were there. So we went out to the point to see everything, then came back to the Gardens. It was hot! Very hot. :) We then started our climb around noon. The climb out was tiring, and very sore. Jenny and I stuck together, and only about 3 pairs of our group passed us. It was a long hike out. You just kept looking up and being like "oh my! all the to go still..... I should just camp here". But then you'd look down and be like, "wow, I climbed all that so far...." It was horrible climbing out. I have to admit, I was grumpy and complaining the whole way out. We got near the top and saw Sam started to go down (he had been sick and unable to hike.... which for him was devastating). He had decided to go down a little bit... since he was feeling better. Anyway... once I finally got out of the canyon... which seemed like forever we were all going to meet at the Pub for dinner... so we went there, and before going in, I called Josh. I was proud I had done it. Once in the pub, I sat for about 45 minutes, had a burger and when I stood up to go back to camp..... I wasn't sore, I felt completely energetic.. it was great! That night we had a few drinks around the bus.... we didn't light a fire.. so we hung out by the light of the storage compartments of the bus. I must admit. I did go to bed early. It was a good day, and got me over a lot of the cautions I had with my knee!

Pic #1-From the top of the Canyon
Pic #2-Mules coming into Indian Gardens
Pic #3-Picture from Midway in canyon
Pic #4-Picture of Colorado River from inside the Canyon
there were many more pictures, but we'll leave it at these.