Saturday, July 30, 2011

Trip to Colorado and Grand Canyon - Post 1 of 4

Our family, the "Arkansas Solbergs", had a phenomenal trip in July out to the Grand Canyon and to Campus Crusade Staff Training in Colorado. We are very thankful for folks who prayed for our trip as well as our Ministry Partners who give financially so that we can go to Staff Training in Colorado.

Since we took many, many, many pictures, we decided it would be best to break them up into different posts. So we have broken our trip up into 4 parts: (1) on the way to the Grand Canyon, (2) at the Grand Canyon, (3) on our way to Staff Training at CSU, and (4) at Staff Training and the way back to Arkansas.

Hope you will enjoy viewing all of the pics we are sharing!!

This first segment of our trip - on the way to the Grand Canyon - is in the post. The first day we went from Little Rock to Oklahoma City, OK - the second was our "long day" from OKC to Albuquerque, NM - and the final day from Albuquerque to Flagstaff, Arizona!!



A sunrise over the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, New Mexico. What a beautiful way for God to start my day. Thank You, Lord!!




All of our route out from Little Rock to the Grand Canyon was I-40...but that road runs very close to the famous "Route 66". Saw this mural and thought it would make a good picture!



Caleb and I having some fun with the "Cigar Man" as we called him. This restaurant had a number of these wooden figures and this was Caleb's favorite!



One of the great things about traveling with kids are the pools you get to splash and swim in on your travels. We didn't get to swim in every pool at the hotels we stayed in but we did at most. This is one from Oklahoma City on our way out to the Grand Canyon.




Another perk of being on the road and staying at hotels is the free breakfast many of them offer to their overnight guests. Most of the hotels we stayed in offered "make-your-own-waffles" an our kids usually had them. Great memories - simple things!!

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