usa: day eight - grand canyon

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lol i give up on explaining all my late entries; i'm just super lazy
yesterday we woke up at like 5:30am
got downstairs at like 6:05am and were very promptly picked up by grand tour adventures
we were the first to be picked up and then we went to the desert rose and picked up a family of four  (coincidentally from blue mountains, australia), the family had a 18 year old boy and 21 year old girl.
the boy was super social but the girl was super quiet
and finally, a black couple from the gold nugget
we actually never learnt their names LOL even though we all got to know each other really well

we drove for awhile and stopped at maccas for complimentary breakfast
then we drove for awhile and ended up on route 66 and passed heaps of ghost towns
we met angel, who was the man responsible for restoring route 66
i slept for a lot of the time
would randomly wake up and we'd all talk about the differences between aussie and US culture
we stopped at hoover dam and took pictures
took us about 4 hours to get to the grand canyon (past arizona!)

in short it was fantastic
nothing pictures or words can capture
it's mindblowing when you think that's its a natural wonder
it looks cartoon-ish and it's kind of hard to wrap your head around the fact that it's real
i think the fact that the Californian smog had settled in made it look cartoon-ish
we spent a good few hours walking around the rim
watching the sunset and the cold come in
by the time we left, it was close to freezing

took us a couple of hours to get back
the returrn trip only had one pit-stop and it was really long
(and i slept)

when i got back to the hotel i got an email from unsw org
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
we went out to ~celebrate but it was already 11 so we ended up ordering room service
lol
still have to wait for news from the GRS before i can finalise
maybe that's why i'm not excited yet, since nothing's been set in stone
can't wait until things are done. done. done.




donna.

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jys said...

yayyyyy! i got the same email :) except being in sydney, i got a phone call first. did you put org or forensic as 1st pref?