pawrrr: cali-vegas day 7 at grand canyon

Time for one of the 7 wonders of da world.. The main highlight of the trip! I had booked a day tour to the Grand Canyon so that we don't have to drive until so tired [5~6 hours journey!]. We were supposed to meet up at what, 6am at the Golden Nugget, which is within walkable distance from our hotel.. And being us, we reached at 6.15 after running all the way down to see a lil van labeled 'Vision Air' waiting around. I had assumed there would be a big tour bus with 'Look Tours' printed on it cos that's who I booked my tickets from. A little while later the Vision Air van left and I fished out my e-ticket and realised that... we had just missed our van. Poor pawsieboy ran after the van but er, unlike in the movies, he couldn't catch up with the van obviously.

So... our trip was cancelled and we went back to the hotel room to sleep.

Heh heh, of course not lah. Thanks to wonders of technology we called up the Look Tours hotline and they got the Vision air van to come back for us.. i hate being late especially in US cos evryone is usually effortlessly punctual. sigh.

I sat in between an african american guy in a diver suit (?!) and pb.. and I realised how squeezy it was.. I was wondering how we were gonna endure such a long trip in such a small van, when it stopped at the vision air office.

yuan lai it only took us to the office to settle our bills.. haha. At which i bought our coffees, and then finally loaded up a nice normal tour bus after they handed us our tour stickers and a lil box of snacks (apple, bread, drink)

The driver was damnnn funny and brimming with lame jokes. He just couldn't stop and it was hilarious hahaha.

the white sticker sooo touristy right. haha. but it was very helpful in determining whether ur fellow tour pple are still hanging around in the toilet/souvenir shops and whether u should be bolting back to the bus or it will leave soon. we stopped at some gas station where pb happily bought a subway meatball sandwich which was rapidly gulped down.

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We first stopped at hoover dam. The route here is kinda scary.. windy roads and high cliffs and the driver had to go really slowly. see pb's brand new a&f shirt-which-looks-like-townbear's-old-old-polo

On the way to lunch, the bus driver played the phantom of the opera [the movie] for us. My first time watching the show, i found it really weird man. but i enjoyed most of the songs and they were stuck in my head for a week after that day.

After a long long time, it was what, 12+ when we finally stopped at some inn at Tusyan for a buffet lunch. The lunch was damn crappy but oh well it filled our tummies.

at 1+...

awesome.

we stopped at 2 points for an hour each. At the first point, we heard a couple speaking in mandarin. It sounded kinda familiar, like you know it wasn't prc chinese. and we listened a bit more, and realised they also mixed english in. and then we knew.. confirm sporean. haha. It feels good to hear sporean voices after so long. and it is so distinctive, cos their english cannot make it, chinese also cannot make it. haha!! When they offered to help take photos for us, I asked them if they were sporean and they were like, ya. but i was quite sian diao cos they weren't as friendly as i would have expected them to be. i mean, make some small talk what i so excited. haha. when i offered to help them take photo the guy was like 'no, we're just colleagues'. like wth colleagues cannot take photo meh.. full of shit.

at the 2nd point, the view looked very much the same after a while so we spent some time buying souvenirs. pb really wanted to eat the dreyers icecream but ~~luckily~~ the queue was too long and we didn't have time.

On the way back, they played 50 first dates. Even though I've watched it b4, I still thoroughly enjoyed the whole show.. and this is stupid but i sobbed at the end of the show. dunno what is wrong with me nowadays watch movies always cry. fever pitch, 50 first dates, and others la. and it's the sobbing kind of crying.. either im watching too much cable or i must be crazy.