Day 60: (Off Day) Grand Canyon National Park, South RimThis morning I woke up at 5:00 am in order to get a little hiking in before heading to a Canon Photography workshop at 9:00 am. Our early morning hiking group consisting of Anish, Nick, Jon, Zach, Alex, Sehee and myself reached the top of the Bright Angel trail at 6:15 am. Around 7:00 am Sehee and I turned around in order to head back up and get to the photography workshop. We did not know how long the hike up would take and decided to play it safe however we reached the top a lot faster than expected and decided to go get coffee before heading over to the Canon Workshop.
The workshop was free and sponsored by Canon meaning they let us use all their top of the line equipment (while they held on to our credit cards as collateral.) Unfortunately it started raining right after they started talking about the Histogram and we had to turn the cameras in. While using the cameras we were allowed to take as many photos as our memory card would hold (mine held 111 photos) and they then burnt all of our photos onto a CD for us to keep while also printing one photo onto a photo postcard. I ended up taking over 70 photos while Sehee ended up with 13 after he deleted many of his.
After the photo workshop we went to the grocery store where I bought Raisin English Muffins, Apple Butter and a bottle of milk for lunch before heading back to the campsite. We had just begun to eat our lunch when it started pouring. With everyone else still out and about Sehee and I quickly gathered everybody’s stuff and threw it into the tents and van before seeking shelter for ourselves. Just as we were finishing gathering the stuff Dan, Drew and Brandt came running back to check on their things which they had left out. They were very thankful to find their stuff safely dry in the van with the exception of Brandt’s sleeping back which we missed as it was on the picnic table of a neighboring campsite where he slept the night before.
I then headed to Post Office to mail some postcards before catching the bus to the Yavapai Observation Station. About five minutes after I got there it started raining harder and began thundering sending me back to the grocery store where I bought a cup of French Vanilla/Hot Chocolate and sat with Anish, Nick, Sean, Andrew, Jon and Zach at the Canyon Village Deli for the next six hours. We spent the time refilling our cups of hot chocolate (numerous times), eating, reading magazines and books from the magazine/book area and trying to figure out Zach’s brain teaser games. Around 6:00 pm I left the grocery store to head over to the Shrine of the Ages where the people from Canon were doing a wildlife photo slideshow and were also handing out our photo CDs from the morning.
Following the wildlife slideshow I returned to the grocery store where I found everyone right where they were when I left. I then bought myself a grocery store dinner that consisted of a frozen pizza burrito which I was able to warm using my cup of very hot, hot chocolate. At 7:45 pm we all finally left the grocery store heading back to camp for a team meeting at 8:00 pm before heading to bed.
After the photo workshop we went to the grocery store where I bought Raisin English Muffins, Apple Butter and a bottle of milk for lunch before heading back to the campsite. We had just begun to eat our lunch when it started pouring. With everyone else still out and about Sehee and I quickly gathered everybody’s stuff and threw it into the tents and van before seeking shelter for ourselves. Just as we were finishing gathering the stuff Dan, Drew and Brandt came running back to check on their things which they had left out. They were very thankful to find their stuff safely dry in the van with the exception of Brandt’s sleeping back which we missed as it was on the picnic table of a neighboring campsite where he slept the night before.
I then headed to Post Office to mail some postcards before catching the bus to the Yavapai Observation Station. About five minutes after I got there it started raining harder and began thundering sending me back to the grocery store where I bought a cup of French Vanilla/Hot Chocolate and sat with Anish, Nick, Sean, Andrew, Jon and Zach at the Canyon Village Deli for the next six hours. We spent the time refilling our cups of hot chocolate (numerous times), eating, reading magazines and books from the magazine/book area and trying to figure out Zach’s brain teaser games. Around 6:00 pm I left the grocery store to head over to the Shrine of the Ages where the people from Canon were doing a wildlife photo slideshow and were also handing out our photo CDs from the morning.Following the wildlife slideshow I returned to the grocery store where I found everyone right where they were when I left. I then bought myself a grocery store dinner that consisted of a frozen pizza burrito which I was able to warm using my cup of very hot, hot chocolate. At 7:45 pm we all finally left the grocery store heading back to camp for a team meeting at 8:00 pm before heading to bed.
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