Grand Canyon

Nos marcamos um dos tours mais completos para visitar o Grand Canyon hoje. Uma van ia nos pegar no hotel, e nos levar ate o aeroporto (40 mins), de la, um teco teco fajuto, nos levaria ate pertinho do canyon, onde um helicoptero nos pegaria para um voo pelo canyon. O helicoptero serpenteia as rochas e oferece uma vista inigualavel - ou pelo menos foi isso o que me disseram!

La embaixo, o helicoptero is pousar e nos iamos fazer um passeio de barco pelo Colorado. Tudo perfeeeito!!

Ate que nos chegamos ao aeroporto e um fela da puta, fulano veio nos avisar que o helicoptero nao ia poder decolar, o vento estava muito forte.

Tentei convencer o cara do check in que a nossa familia estava toda ali, e eu nao ia deixar nenhuma crianca orfa para o governo sustentar, caso o helicoptero caisse. Pensa bem, prejuizo zero! Nao ia ter nem ninguem para pedir indenizacao...e nos ainda iamos deixar uma herancazinha. Coisa pouca, mas melhor que nada, ne?

Nada disso. Nao teve jeito. Ate perguntei se a gente podia descer o Canyon de mula, mas esse passeio foi abolido na decada de 50.

Que saco, viu...

Helicoptero ou nao helicoptero, o nosso passeio foi magico! O Gran Canyon (la de cima, pq EU NAO DESCIIIII) e maravilhoso...

Da uma olhada nas fotos do passeio aereo:

We bought one of those packages to see the Grand Canyon. I think it was the most complete one, since they cancelled donkey rides along the Colorado River in the 50's


Our tour would pick us up with a van at the hotel and take us to the airport (40 min), from there, we would catch a double helice plane (so small, my car seems bigger), the plane would take us very close to the canyon, where a helicopter would pick us up and show us the magic of the place. It would fly ery close to the walls, show us details of the rock formation and then land on the bottom of the canyon, where a boat would be waiting to take us on an exciting boat ride on the Colorado river. Then we would do the reverse trip - helicopeter-small plane-van and get back to Vegas just on time to see the water show at Bellagio. Sometime in between all this stuff, we would get lunch cooked by the indians who control the place and have a stroll around the skywalk.

Doesn't get much better, right?

Well,we would not be able to tell you, because as soon as the van dropped us off at the airport, someone called us and informed the helicopter rides were cancelled - we could get the money for the whole trip back, or just skip this part (helicopeter, close view of the canyon, landing at the bottom, boat ride...)

Tough choice, but we decided to stick to the plan, or what was left of it.

The small plane felt like a roller coast ride, so bumpy it was fun (and scary). The views where breath taking!
Have a look at the pics

view from the plane - we all bought the window upgrade!

vista do teco teco - nos todos compramos o upgrade pra sentar na janela

vista aerea da represa Hoover

aereal view of the Hoover Dam

Linda, ne?

Just gorgeous

no words

sem palavras

Colorado River - aerial view

Vista aerea do Rio Colorado

We are almost there...

chegando!

Our first stop was at the sky walk, the huge glass plataform that allows you to see the canyon from the top - gorgeous, but no photos allowed there.

:-(

Nossa primeira parada foi no sky walk, a plataforma de vidro que te deixa ter uma vista ultra privilegiada do canyon (mas eles nao deixam ninguem tirar nenhuma foto)

:-(

From there, we went to have lunch cooked by the indians. Meat, chicken, rice, beans and corn. One of the best corn cobs I have ever tasted. Ah, they had some veggies too, but not exceptional, so I almost forgot to mention them.

It was hot as hell, but right next to the restaurant, we could see the best views of the canyon. I am just in love with the place!

Depois do passeio, fomos almocar uma comida feita pelos indios do local. Carne vermelha, frango, arroz, feijao (arroz e feijao?? eu nunca imaginaria que eles comem o mesmo que nos), milho e uns vegetais. Uma delicia.

Um calor infernal, mas a vista do restaurante era tao maravilhosa, que nos saimos para um passeio pela redondeza!

meus amores

great love

and a princess

minha princesa

e aqui tambem veeenta

the wind blows here too

my father in law - who gave us this great gift

meu sogro, que nos deu esse presente maravilhoso

nunca senti um amor tao forte, tao especial e tao maravilhoso quanto o que eu sinto por essas duas!

I never felt anything remotely close to what I feel for these two

It was a fab trip, I will treasure these memories forever!

Esse passeio foi maravilhoso, e eu ou levar essas memorias comigo para sempre!!