We walked on the Rim Trail in the morning, about 3 miles from the main visitor center to the old Grand Canyon Village. Lots of great views and we saw a big female elk (we think, might've been a mule deer) right in front of us by the trail.
We had a breakfast snack and then caught the park shuttle back to where we started. The Grand Canyon was great to see, beautiful, and a little hard to take in. But it feels different from the other parks we've been to, in that you look at it but don't feel as much that you're part of it or IN it. There are a couple of trails that go down into the canyon, and people raft the river, but it's just felt different to us. Around the rim it's very developed with visitor services (gift shops, food, etc). We were ready to go after our morning walk.
We packed up our camp for the last time, and started our drive. We went south out of the park and drove to Flagstaff, where we found a bookstore and a magic card store. The boys had finished their books and each got the next in the series (Jay points out that his series is called Fablehaven, not whatever I wrote previously).
From Flagstaff we officially turned east to head homeward! We stopped for the night in Holbrook, Arizona.
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