Sunday - More than a little adventure!

This morning we headed out in are car pools to a local restaurant for breakfast where pancakes were larger than plate size (they used platters to serve). We then re-asssembled at the Antelope Canyou Excursions with extra time to spare so many of us wandered next door for extra clothing. The rain during the night had cooled things off.

The open sided trucks departed with all 24 onboard - and rain! We were all soaked by the time we had arrived at Upper Antelope Canyon. The ride in the lower canyon was through deeply rutted mud/sand and fun but you had to hang on but the rain had stopped.

Once we arrived to the upper canyon we discovered that it was a very interesting and beautiful narrow canyon with lots of small rooms and twisted sandstone formations going up to an opening in the "roof" - very unusual to us easterners and the colors very spectacular. As we wandered deeper into the canyon the rain began - making things more interesting.

At one point the call went out - GET OUT! Most people started exiting in a orderly fashion while thers paniced and were running and yelling while the employees tried to get crowd out and into our vehicles.

By the time we were loaded the waterfall and other water flows were starting to cover the area. This is the same area where Bill was standing - with no water as we entered.

A Flash Flood had been issued by the Park Service and Antelope Canyon had been closed. By 4-5 pm the full flash flood waters should occur.

We have all driven back to the campground and taken hot showers - now the sun is out and it will be interesting to see what the rest of the day brings!