should we sleep
so after a night up and the day up before too for flying - we leave Las Vegas in the middle of the night - at 5 am we decide it is time to sleep and look for a nice spot to sleep: and we found one behind a fence - but as soon as we wanted to get comfortable the police is here and calls us with one of the noisy megaphones and tells us to leave the prohibited area.Now what??? ok so we continue on - and we arrive at the Grand canyon - find a campground: and already here we have to keep going, so the tent goes up and no sleeping - because that we can do later, right! so

our first destination - our first national park

Grand Canyon
let's do something relaxing: let's see the world from above: a helicopter ride - which is amazing: better than a airplane flight: you fly over the forest and suddenly the ground drops off... amazing
and then we drove along the Grand Canyon: stop once in a while and check out the view, Laski had to climb once in a while over the fence and climb on a tree to hang over the canyon - seriously.... - and finally end up in a steak house

July 27 - a hike down the Canyon
ok if you come to the Grand Canyon - what should you do: hike down and back up, so that's what we did the next morning: Boeff slept in the car - so it was only me and Laski in our 4 person tent - ok so at least it was worse to bring the tent with us...
at 05.30 we are back up and at 06.00 we are at McDonald for a yummy breakfast and then we are on the way down:

down: the Kaibab Trail: the 11.4 km we did in 2.5 hours (ok we were still fit) and stopped at the Cedar Point: and we had a lot of dust, we were fit, and we came across new views all the way down

Phantom Ranch: we take a break and relax and got told that only stupid European Tourists think they can do both ways in one day and said the typical sentence the rangers hear is "I hike the Alps"
Back up: the Brigth Angel Trail: with 15.6 km - it took us 7 hours and we stopped at Indians Garden - so we start out all is fine, we drink we walk - we drink we walk - until Boeff and Laski have that super idea: that it is actually quite boring to walk slowly up... why don't we run or jog up, that goes faster... and Gine says: No - so the Guys run ahead and Gine follows.... arriving at the top: the guys lie on the bench Hey where were you so long - guess what you should never go on a hike with guys who love sports and are totally fit!!!