Nature trip in Arizona Part 4: Antelope canyon boat tour

The previous post in this series is here..

While eating the tamarind rice and choking on it, I asked San "arent we supposed to be on a boat tour today as well?" and she goes "In the interest of time I did not book it!".. a few tears and sentimental dialogues that would seriously make Sivaji Ganesan hand over his Chevalier award to me, we called the tour operator and were confirmed for the 5PM (last) boat tour of Antelope Canyon. We were asked to be at the dock 15 minutes before and the dock was 15 minutes from our hotel. 

We decided to take a power nap for an hour and head out..  

it was Antelope canyon day.. a tour all morning, a tour all afternoon and now for the evening a boat tour.

We realized while entering the dock that the boat tour fees did NOT include the entry to the dock which was part of the National park service. If you don't have a National park pass, you have to pay 30 $.. if you do enjoy national parks, strongly recommend you get the annual pass for 80 bucks.  It is always a good thing to support our national parks!

Seeing natural wonders gives me more goosebumps than visiting any temple. Keep telling my family that if you want to realize god, go to a National park and take a look from any vista point!  Or look at the smiling face of your spouse or children.. while the second option makes you mentally happy, you don't get the exercise.. so go to the parks!

The boat tour was great! we got waterbottles on the boat and a tourguide who was local and gave us a personalized tour as we spent an hour on a boat going through the canyon on water! 

Loved it through and through!

a photo gallery of the nature pics..

Once done, we decided to go find dinner in Page. The first mexican place we went to had a 45 minute wait. So we went to the second one and were promptly seated. The food was amazing as was the service. 

my models did not disappoint!

Video highlights reel of the boat tour and back..

The next morning was going to be an all day drive back to Phoenix after a few stops. So we decided to hit the one big super Walmart in the area before going to bed. Have not seen a store this big in my life! Stocked up on some yogurt, bottled water etc. for the return trip and made it back to the hotel.

Day 2 of the trip was done!

Rotidilla

Yes!

For the first time in my life, tasted a cheese quasedilla, at a Taco Bell during our Santa Barbara trip and I really liked it. At that time, I also relized that it was the Mexican equivalent of the aloo paratha, except the cheese takes the place of the Aloo.

For the last two weeks, have been wanting to try making a Rotidilla(A word I am copyrighting right now.. Google search shows zero results).

Today that dream has come true. San had some mini roti's leftover after the kids had their tiffin and ...

Behold, the Rotidilla!!!

Had to hold the video camera like a phone to take the video (San was busy minding the kids who were hell bent on peeking into the garbage container.. apparently a garbage container is more fun than toys, books, etc.)

Next week, will add some spice to the Rotidilla and try to use less cheese (we have to listen to the critics!). It is high time some one started mixing Cheddar Cheese and Sambar powder!

I have two kids who will volunteer to taste and give me feedback ...

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