We got into hollywood around 8pm last night. Today we are in the process of getting things unpacked and settling in. It finally seems real today after stocking up at the grocery store. The house is great, except there is no AC. It's got a lot of windows, so as long as it's safe to keep them open, the place stays pretty cool. As far as apartments in Hollywood go, its pretty spacious. I'm very glad to be out of the car! 
The painted desert is really beautiful, but by this point we were ready
Lizard on petrified wood.
Bunny Rabbit munching on grass.
The Petrified forest was a little bit of a backtrack, but it was really cool to see trees that are hundreds of millions of years old, and turned into rock. I've never seen anything like it. And it was fun that you could touch and feel them.
After visiting the Grand Canyon we drove to the KOA in Holbrook, AZ (about 20 miles from the Petrified forest). This was our first KOA experience and it was pretty good. We went for a swim in the pool and relaxed a little (there hasn't been a lot of that on this trip). We still had a netflix movie with us, so we watched Deliverance. I had never seen it before and had wanted to see it before we left GA, oh well. Anyway, thanks to the scary movie and the 3 beers I drank I didn't sleep more than 3 hours all night. And of course Jim slept like a rock. The KOA was fun, though.
Definitely worth the wait! Absolutely amazing. We were completely in awe.
We didn't have too long at the canyon by the time we got there and on the shuttles, but we are already planning on taking another trip and staying in the park.
We stayed in Flagstaff last night. The drive to the canyon park entrance is about an hour and a half, but it took another half hour to get into the gates. We're not really sure why. Once it was our turn it took less than a minute to get into the park and then there was very little traffic. It reminded us a little of Disney world with the lines to get onto the free shuttles to go around the park.
After leaving Albuquerque we went up through the Navajo nation and made our way to Four Corners. Jim decided to take a nap in AZ, NM, CO, and UT at once. It was a really long drive. Really long. We thought that we would never get out of that desert!
The last daylight on the road to albuquergue left us with what should have been 3 hours to go, unfortunately we hit our first rain storm in New Mexico as well as lots of construction areas where no one was working.
I drove all the way from Dallas to Amarillo, TX on the second day. It was about 6 hours and most of it was 2 line highway. The speed limit was 70, but then it would all of a sudden drop to 55, then 50, 40, 35, 30 and we would be driving through these tiny towns. It made the trip kindof long and drawn out, but we felt like we got to see more of Texas. I was overjoyed to hand over the wheel in Amarillo and promptly fell asleep.
The view of the Book depository from the center of the park near where the second shot hit.
The Grassy knoll. You can barely see the X on he road in front of the black SUV which marks the location of the car when the second bullet hit the president.
We stayed with Jim Sr. for the night and ate some delicious homemade southern food (cube steak and gravy, mashed potatoes, biscuits, etc.
Everything is bigger in Texas. Even their stop signs are twice the size of ours. This was Sunday afternoon when we crossed the border.
This was another first for me. It was really nice new bridge (the old one is to the right) and the river is HUGE.
Our first major state crossing! I've never been to Mississippi! This was Sunday morning.
Kali is trying on old halloween costumes. She's always dreamed of being a movie star lion!
