go missions las vegas 2008 (5)

so wednesday was our last FULL day in vegas, so it was our free day. we woke up super early, and headed off to dennys for breakie. but the person at dennys said that they didnt have enough people/waitress's to feed us, so pastor mikes van went to ihop while ashleys van stayed at dennys. i got to go to ihop, which was suppppper yummy! i was soo stuffed.
it was a fairly long drive to the grand canyon, but well worth it ! we drove across hoover dam, where they are building a highway/road over top that'll be really cool. you might be able to see it in some of these pics. i think it was like a 3 and a half hour drive, in a van of 12 people. yess, it stretches your patience (especially if your sitting by annie and you want to sleep JK). haha, but it was alot of fun. to get to the canyon we had to drive on a dirt road for like a hour, and it was really dusty. it felt like we were really in the desert for once.
heres some pics on the way there in the van. some of them it might look like its raining but its just the dirt on the window

after a long drive we arrived at the canyon. you park your car, and then a bus picks you up and takes you to the first of 2 stops. the first stop had a glass overhead floor that you could go on (if you paid 30$) so most of us opted not to. we got some really awesome pictures and it was about 5000 feet to the bottom, and they said it would take 10 seconds for you to hit the bottom if you fell; which is always heart warming. it was super nice and hot there and i managed to get a nice burn which im proud of !! :D

heres some pictures for you to enjoy.

all the layers

Joanna and Beth

LONNNGG way down, so hard to capture in a picture

the glass walk thing mentioned above

Annie, Beth and Jessica (mentioned in previous posts)

team pic

and heres a video of some birds catching bread..but you cant see them catching it so enjoy the sceenery.

all in all , the whole trip was awesome and i wouldnt change anything about it. it was awesome to see God work in not only myself, but in my team mates. i cant wait to go on more mission trips; both short and long term ! :) hope you enjoyed all my info about vegas and everything else :)