June 29, 2009 - Phoenix to Grand Canyon

Now we already spent more than 24 hours on the West Coast, and all we can say or think is it is HOT!!!

After a quick (and good) breakfast we went on our first bus tour, with our fabulous bus drivers Willis and Kirk, to the state capital. The original State capital, nowadays just a museum, was good for much more than the picture taking and running around of 88 exchange students. After we somehow managed to get the group back together we made our way to the "Hole in The Rock" in Papago-Park which in fact is just a massive rock with a hole. Even though many people did already struggle on the way up this little hill, we had an amazing view over Phoenix and the desert. Question is how are we gonna make our way into the Grand Canyon if we had problems getting up this, in comparison, fairly small rock? haha!

After that we made our way back to the busses where everyone was ready for something refreshing, so we went to the mall. The food court probably made the most money off us exchange students, who are not at all used to Phoenix's weather. But somehow not only the food court seemed to make money from us, after reentering the busses almost everyone had at least two bags of new stuff with them. The first long bus ride was just ahead of us, it should take us only about 4 hours to get from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon.

After the bus ride full of entertaining movies, dance-offs in the middle of the bus and a lot of tired students we finally made it to our new hotel. Well this hotel should probably be called Ranch rather than Hotel, with horseback riding, loosing power, teepees and a bull. Furthermore there is a basketball court, a pool, tennis courts and tons and tons of space for us to have fun and we can do all this without being scared of getting lost or kidnapped since there is literally nothing around us. After a little bit of free time it was already time for our second dinner of this trip. And to our excitement we are going to have a talent show tomorrow, let's see what each country has to offer (btw. Germany is definitely gonna win here).

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Viktoria Stark Germany

Lennart Kretschmer Germany