Introducing: Boys Blog

Occasionally, we will try to introduce the boys' perspective. To kick this off, I have commissioned a few hundred words from each boy to describe the trip so far. Here is their take on the first 3-4 days, mixed in with a few of their pictures. They didn't get pictures everywhere, so the pictures may not necessarily agree with the narrative:

Jeremy's Blog




First we left our house, and that day we traveled for a long time—about six and one-half hours. We watched half our movies, played some video games. I read all my books (two).

The day after that, we traveled for about 8 hours, and we watched the rest of our movies and played a lot of video games, so, yeah. Then we reached Las Vegas.We had a semi-good time in Vegas, but I found out why it’s called Sin City.










And on the third day, we traveled for about four hours. We saw Hoover dam and the Grand Canyon. We saw the sundown. I got some cool pictures.








So after that, we are in day four now. Today we are still traveling. Right now we are moving toward Flagstaff.








This morning we woke up and 4:30 to see the sunrise—that was a bust. I went back to bed for awhile after two small breakfasts—one at McDonalds and a second at our hotel.












Then we packed up and left, and were at the Grand Canyon for about 4-5 hours, and we saw a whole lot of it.

And we’re still traveling, so that brings us up to the present.

Ian's Blog

Um, we left, we watched about half the movies we brought on the first day and played video games—we brought Apple Dumpling Gang, Angel Wars, and Pirates of the Caribbean. In Susanville, we ate at Subway.






The next day we had a very long drive to Las Vegas, which was very grueling and tiresome, but we had entertainment.
In Las Vegas, they could have cleaned up a lot of stuff, including the people handing out weird cards on the street. The attractions were nice, like the volcano. The Luxor and Excalibur were cool looking on the outside.

After that night, we went out the next morning and swam in the pool and hot tub and watched a little bit of Bionicle Two and Three.

After that, we got out of Las Vegas, and we headed for Hoover Dam, which was really cool—it was big and there was a lot of concrete. I liked it.

Then we went over to the Grand Canyon, and saw the sunset. It was cold and windy, and I was glad when it was over, but the sunset was pretty nice. At 4:30 this morning, we got up, after having a late night eating Wendy’s hamburgers. We went and saw the sunrise, which was a flop. There were a lot of clouds and a brightening skyline.

After that, we came back and I finished a book and took a shower, and then we went back for a long, grueling day at the Grand Canyon, which was fun—we got some stuff.

I got my picture next to this train, which runs right up to the Grand Canyon.