your chariot awaits

Anika has not wanted to walk anywhere this entire trip. Since we forgot to bring along her stroller, and knew we would need one at Knotts at the very least, we bought one at 'Once upon a child' in Phoenix, at the beginning of our trip. She is totally in love with it, and if we even nip into a store she complains, "WHY didn't Daddy bring my stroller?". Scott has taken to saying, "Your chariot awaits!", whenever we go somewhere and he pops out her stroller. However TODAY, this child who cannot walk in the mall, who cannot walk from store to store, who cannot walk from the parking lot into the zoo, decided she was going to hike the Grand Canyon, and was going to cry whenever Scott took the other girls down or up into scary places. As we were walking up from our short climb down into the canyon she was saying, "How can a 3 year old even do this? A 2 year old or a 1 year old couldn't do this!".