Reservoir Avenue School

Providence, RI

Summer, 2004: Tunia visited the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam during her summer vacation. It was an exciting trip with beautiful views of the Grand Canyon and the amazing Hoover Dam. Though these photos were taken on the ground, the space shuttle astronauts have taken photos in the past of both the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam from outer space. Can you imagine they are visible from so far away?

On the way to the Grand Canyon, Tunia stopped by Grasshopper Junction on Route 93 in Arizona. She couldn't resist stopping in a place with that name! Look at what she found there in the photos above.

Tunia also visited the Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border. Construction for this dam began in 1931 and finished in 1935. Its power plant was finished in 1936, and its first generator began running that year. Finally in 1961, the 17th and last generator began running. The reservoir for Hoover Dam is called Lake Mead.

Tunia poses in front of the magnificent Grand Canyon.

The colors were unbelievable. Look below for some more photos of the Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon is in Arizona.

Close to 5 million people visit the Grand Canyon every year.

There are about 1,500 flowering plants, 299 kinds of birds, 74 kinds of mammals, 16 kinds of fish, and 48 kinds of amphibians and reptiles living in the Grand Canyon.

President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Grand Canyon in 1903 and liked it so much that he changed its status from national forest and game reserve to national monument in 1908.

The Grand Canyon became a national park in 1919.

Then in 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a law that doubled the size of the Grand Canyon.

Tunia made some interesting friends along the way. Outside a shop near the Grand Canyon, she met a cowboy. Then she met a famous polar bear at the Coca-Cola Factory in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tunia had quite a vacation!

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