Afternoon: On site registration in hotel meeting room from 4:30-5:15 PM

Dinner: Dinner at local restaurant with an extensive salad bar and entree choices.

Evening: After dinner, meet your fellow participants, both young and young at heart, and learn about the full slate of fun and educational activities planned for the next five days in Flagstaff and northern Arizona.

Lodging: Flagstaff La Quinta Inn & Suites

Meals Included: Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel including waffles, hot and cold cereals, coffee, juice and fruit.

Morning: Shuttle to Northern Arizona University's Challenge Course on south campus for a morning of team building events. Our goal is to build a trusting and cohesive group of grandparents and grandchildren who just met each other the night before. We will start out with on the ground games, move to low and then to high element activities. This will include some of the elements of the static course with activities at heights 25-30 feet off the ground. This progression of activities will challenge the group with increasingly difficult tasks while encouraging cooperation, inspiring confidence and having fun, all within a supportive and safe environment. Grandparents as well as grandchildren are encouraged to participate, but all activities are 'challenge by choice'. (Requires only average strength and coordination). Then travel to Williams, AZ to Bearizona.

Lunch: Sack lunch at Bearizona.

Afternoon: At Bearizona, watch hawks, owls, falcons and other raptors in “free flight” demonstrations while learning about their natural history, conservation and important role in ecosystem health. Visit Fort Bearizona to see black bear cubs and other North American animals in a walk-through setting. Then travel through the Drive Thru Wildlife Park to see large North American mammals including bison, wolves, big horn sheep and black bears. Depart Bearizona for the surrounding ponderosa forest where we’ll learn some basic survival techniques and build an emergency shelter out of natural materials. Return to the hotel in late afternoon.

Dinner: Dinner at a local Greek restaurant with a variety of entree choices for all ages and palates.

Evening: Evening presentation on a topic geared to be of interest to both grandparents and grandchildren. The presentation will be a hands-on insect demonstration with hissing cockroaches, tarantulas, millipedes and more! Come and see how wonderful insects are and how different they are from what Hollywood portrays. Alternately, the kids-geared presentation might be about the efforts to reestablish the once nearly-extinct California Condor, America's largest bird, in northern Arizona.

Lodging: Flagstaff La Quinta Inn & Suites

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Navajo Reservation/Horseshoe Bend Overlook/Glen Canyon Dam/Rafting on the Colorado River

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel including waffles, hot and cold cereals, coffee, juice and fruit.

Morning: Depart for Cameron Trading Post, and then to the spectacular Colorado River overlook from the mesa top at Horseshoe Bend. Travel to the Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam. Next, board your raft below the Glen Canyon Dam and begin floating through the 800 ft vertical red sandstone walls of Glen Canyon in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Lunch: Enjoy your lunch after boarding the boat for the raft trip.

Afternoon: Enjoy looking up at the high cliffs as you search for golden eagles, California condors, hawks and turkey vultures. Stop to see the amazing petroglyphs, perhaps 1000 years old, just a short distance from shore. Then dare your friends to jump into the 48 degree water of the Colorado River before reboarding the rafts for the spectacular trip around the Horseshoe Bend -- this time from the river. Dock at Lee's Ferry, where the Grand Canyon begins, as river guides ready their rafts for their trips through the Grand Canyon. Please note: raft trip participation requires signature on a liability waiver.

Dinner: Dinner at the historic Cameron Trading Post. One of your entree choices is an authentic Navajo Taco with all the trimmings.

Evening: Return to Flagstaff after dinner.

Lodging: Flagstaff La Quinta Inn & Suites

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel including waffles, hot and cold cereals, coffee, juice and fruit.

Morning: After breakfast is a 'Kids Only' activity. Then, ever wonder how the Grand Canyon was created? Everyone will participate in a hands-on presentation on the mighty earth forces over millions and billions of years that created the San Francisco Peaks and the Grand Canyon. Which layer will YOU be?!

Lunch: Lunch at a local restaurant with many choices from an extensive salad and taco bar.

Afternoon: After lunch, enjoy a free afternoon to explore historic Flagstaff and regional attractions on your own or with new friends or enjoy a dip in the hotel's pool. Because of the numerous opportunities for individual exploration you may wish to combine the afternoon and evening free times and go to Sedona, Meteor Crater, Montezuma Castle, Petrified Forest or other point of interest.

Dinner: Dinner at a local Mexican restaurant.

Evening: Enjoy a free evening.

Lodging: Flagstaff La Quinta Inn & Suites

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

All Aboard the Grand Canyon Railway!/Arizona Ranchlands/Grand Canyon National Park and Bright Angel Trail/Pizza Party!

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel including waffles, hot and cold cereals, coffee, juice and fruit.

Morning: Board transportation to the Williams train depot, 35 miles west of Flagstaff. Following the thrilling Wild West show and shoot out, board the train for the 60 mile trip through forests and high desert ranch land to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Look for prairie dogs near Williams then watch for mule deer in the ponderosa forest and pronghorn antelope and free range cattle in the open range lands.

Lunch: Box lunch to enjoy on the train as you travel through an iconic Arizona ranch landscape with mountains in the distance.

Afternoon: After box lunch on the train, tour Grand Canyon Village and the view points of the Grand Canyon from the S. Rim. Optional hike down the famous Bright Angel Trail! Enjoy a little bit of free time to explore the Canyon on your own or find the fountain for ice cream at the Bright Angel Lodge! Board train to return to the Williams train station -- that is, unless the train robbers get you on the way back!

Dinner: Come back to Flagstaff and enjoy a festive pizza party for our final dinner.

Evening: Enjoy the last evening together with your new friends before packing up.

Lodging: Flagstaff La Quinta Inn & Suites

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Walnut Canyon National Monument Ancient Cliff Dwellings/Program Wrap Up & Farewells

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel including waffles, hot and cold cereals, coffee, juice and fruit.

Morning: This morning, travel to Walnut Canyon National Monument, to view the 700 year old Anasazi pueblo ruins there. Walk down into the canyon to visit and, in some cases, step inside these ancient structures. Walk in the footsteps of these early area inhabitants, see how they lived, where they got their food, how they built their homes, while enjoying the spectacular scenery and geology of Walnut Canyon. Hear of the connection that the Hopi people have to this beautiful canyon. Visit the Monument's museum and bookstore. Program review and farewells on the canyon's rim. Program ends with the return to the hotel in time for the 11:00 AM checkout.

Meals Included: Breakfast