Zion

Shall we all gather in Zion? I think we shall. What a beautiful place Zion National Park is. The kids and I had never been to Zion, so we thought it would be a fun place to go for a little vacation. We didn't quite make it for spring break but we thought the kids wouldn't get too far behind missing a couple days of school. It was well worth the trip. We have so many beautiful things to see in Utah and with the economy the way it is we can't afford to go other places so why not see what we have in our great state!

The drive down was great, can't you tell. The DS tired Ryan right out!

We got there Sunday night so this picture is the next morning along a Parus trail.

Stopping for a little snack.

Our camp site was right by the river. I loved sleeping at night to the sound of the water rushing by.

Cars!! Those and the DS were life savers.

Is it a potato? Nope it's a rock. Sara came home with quite the collection of rocks. How long do I have to let her keep them?

After our bike ride and a little lunch we went to the museum and watched a video on how Zion National Park was made. It was a really informative video. By the time we got out though it had started raining.

So back to our trailer we tried to go. We had to wait for the bus to take us back. We did take a drive up to the tunnel. That was a neat thing to see too.

That night we made a pizza in our dutch oven. We were so excited for it but when we bit into it not so good. I'm new at the dutch oven thing and I guess I didn't store it properly. So it had a funny smell to it and when the food was cooked in it, it took on the smell. So I had to run to the little store right out side the park and bought ramen noodles. Yummy! Not really, but Ryan was happy!! Here I am making the noodles.

Breakfast Tuesday morning. Mmmmm, bagels and powdered doughnuts!!

I think this was the 3 prophets. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The lower emerald pools. The waterfall is from the middle emerald pools just above.

We were at Zions lodge trying to get a picture of this nut.

This is just below Angel's landing.

Same place.

We are at the trail head that leads into the Narrows.

This is along that trail.

If you noticed Jakob was not with us. That morning he was having some stomach issues. Probably from our delicious pizza the night before. So he stayed at the trailer. I think he had more fun there watching movies, sleeping and reading his book.

Like I said before it was so much fun. If you haven't been there before I recommend it. It is such a beautiful place. I see why they named it Zion!