The hotel provided some entertainment during the night with a fire alarm at 00:29. Thanks to our well trained kids, we were out not more than 1 minute after we woke up. Sarah was the faster to react. We were the first ones out, by far. It turned out to be a false alarm, but it took 30min before we could go back to the room.

In the morning, we woke up a bit earlier than usual and caught the first shuttle bus to the park. We followed a ranger led walk about fossils, where the kids went hunting for old marine fossils.

We took the shuttle to the western part of the south rim, had lunch, and went to the geology museum.

The kids got their 6th junior ranger badge. We, parents, are almost getting tired of it. It’s a lot of work, actually 😉

Since the hotel was just 15min away, we had decided to break early, enjoy the swimming pool, eat diner and go back to the park, by car, for the sunset. The sunset was a magical moment, with beautiful colors on the red rocks, a quiet crowd enjoying these precious minutes.

We’re leaving the park, and Arizona, tomorrow, going back to Utah. They’re both in the same time zone, but Arizona has summer time, which got us seriously confused on the way to the Grand Canyon. The clock on our phones and in the car updated automatically, so we were not aware of the change before quite late yesterday.