The Astounding Grand Canyon!

On our way from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon, pit stop at Red Rock, right outside of Sedona!

Another view of the scenery!

Students hanging out and playing at the Mountain Ranch Lodge

Students roaming the countryside

Dinner!

                                           

                                            Report of the unique “Art and Chemistry”

                 Mountain Ranch and Resort. We just arrived at around 5 pm and we already love this place. The rooms are big and comfortable, the view is amazing, the rabbits are all around the place! Girls love them! (They are actually good. But bears are better.) Guys played basketball and volleyball and swam in the pool. To us, we played tennis. After the dinner, we enjoyed playing basketball with Brittany and Mr. Didz. Actually, our task for yesterday was to laugh and have fun and not to get in trouble. (We got A+)
              Though, we’d like to talk about today. We left the hotel at 8 am and headed to the Grand Canyon!!  When we arrived and went to take a look at the view of the Grand Canyon, almost everyone had his or her mouth wide open. THE VIEW WAS AMAZING!!! (and still is) We took the whole lot of pictures and videos. Everybody was very impressed, but no one really knew how the hiking was going to be. We hiked 1.515267 miles down and 1.484733 miles up. At the beginning, it was really easy hiking down the Grand Canyon and people were just relaxed and were taking pictures. About the half way down we began playing music and dancing for the camera. We did it about four times. It was so much FUN!!! After we finally reached the bottom, we rested and filled up our water bottles. Then the torture began…!!! Without any music and partying it up, we probably wouldn’t have made it. Butt hanks to Art, our savior, we were dancing all the time. WE ROCKED THE GRAND CANYON !!!
             We took the shuttle buses to explore the rest of the Grand Canyon. First we, Art, Nico, Patrick and Max, took the wrong shuttle bus. Max was sleeping, Patrick was enjoying the view and we, Art and Nico, or known as “Art and Chemistry”, found out we were moving in the opposite directions. But after a 10 minutes walk, we ended up with meeting our group. And all together we visited different points, such as the famous POWELL POINT. It was A* (A=AWESOME)* and the view was A* (A= Amazing)*. Later on we went to dinner in a restaurant in the park and we had salad, meatballs, chicken, spaghetti with sauce and drinks. And now we are sitting here and writing the blog very “seriously”. No, seriously!!!
So that was the most awesomest report in this BLOG. Of course because it was written by Art and Chemistry (Nico). Brothers forever!!!

Artem Birkle, Russia
Nico Lippmann, Germany

Chris (GER) and Flavia (GER) representing Germany after the first view of the Canyon!

What a glorious view!

Stretching before the 3 mile hike!

A few yards into our hike, they were pumped!

Mules!

Students enjoying the glorious view!

Will (BRA), Alex (SUI), Rai (CHI), Marius (GER)

Right at the bottom of the hike, look how far we came!

Annika (GER) and Linda (SUI), look at the goat right about Linda's shoulder!

The trail we hiked!

A yummy treat after that workout!

Some of the students during our shuttle bus around to different views

Arne (GER)

Patrice, our Chaperone, taking it all in!

Dinner at the Grand Canyon!