Grand Canyon National Park

Just returned last night from a work trip to America. The conference in San Diego was amazing with 20,000 haematologist clinicians and scientists attending! Following the conference I took advantage of being in America and took a 3 day holiday to visit the Grand Canyon National Park. It was spectacular! To make it even better, it had been snowing and everything was covered in beautiful white snow! It was pretty cold, the maximum temp was zero degrees C, and it got down to -17C! Due to the ice and snow it wasn't possible to hike down into the canyon without crampons and snow shoes, but there were still lots of walks along the South Rim trails, full of amazing views. There were also plenty of Elk around, which seemed to be pretty confident around humans and came nice and close :-) A friend and I stayed the night in a cabin in the national park so we could experience a sun set and also a sun rise over the canyon. I'd say winter is a wonderful time to visit, no crowds of people, and the snow made it even more magic.
 

As the security people at the airport kindly confiscated my 'safety' (blunt) scissors and wouldn't allow me to take a crochet hook on the plane I did not get any craft done on the long flights between Australia and America. Hopefully should get some time to finish a few projects in the next month or so and post pictures up soon.