Walking below the rim of the canyon

I don't do well with heights but I've always wanted to walk down into the Grand Canyon. Today we went to the Bright Angel trail. We started down and I needed to hold Scott's hand. At the first turn in the trail I saw out over the canyon and there was no guard rail and I froze up. Had to stand there for a minute to get my courage up to walk the (very) short distance back.

Scott continued down and I hung out at the rim thinking if I didn't go down there I'd always regret it. People were coming back dusty, sweaty and smiling and it made me want to try again. So when Scott came back up I told him I wanted to try to walk down again and after a drink we started back down. I was still holding his hand, but I had my big girl panties on this time. After that first turn the trail widened and I was doing better. We didn't walk the 1.5 mi to the first station, but I was happy with the distance we traveled and I came back up dusty, sweaty and smiling.