Today we went to Zion National Park.
Today was the first part of of our trip to a place I had never been to before. I was hoping it would be cool and it was. In both senses of the word. I was glad I had worn pants but wished I had brought a sweatshirt, at least in the morning. As we were driving to Zion we went through a very long tunnel and it had these windows in it.
When we were talking to the park ranger later he told us that the windows were where they blasted the mountain first and then would work to end of the mountains from there. While we were at Zion National Park we saw lots of animals.
Eric thought it was so funny that the wild turkey went and ate the restaurant (trying to find bits of food on the ground)!!
The first hike up to the narrows was very easy and fun.
We found this big flat rock and had a ton of fun taking pictures on it
and sliding on it.
In fact, Eric said this was his favorite part of the trip.
It was too cold for us to actually walk up in the water to see the narrows so we stopped at the end of the dry area.
Emma was so bummed. She had wanted to go swimming the whole time and the day we told her she would be able to it was too cold and as terrible parents we wouldn't let her go. We went on another little hike to the 3 Emerald Pools.
Eric, Meagan and I didn't feel like going all the way to the 3rd pool so we just stopped at the first. Heidi, Emma and David went all the way up and had a great time.
Unfortunately for them they missed out on the wild turkey coming right up to us. We also found some of our final license plates here. In fact at Zion's we were all done except for one. We couldn't find Delaware. The first state was our last one to find. The kids finished up another set of Jr. Ranger tasks and received their 3rd badge.
It was another beautiful place for us to visit.
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You went to many of my favorite places. George's Dad owned a ranch that bordered Zion on 3 sides. That is where we got engaged!
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