Mike and I just got back from a wonderful 4 days in Southern Utah. On Thursday, (4/5/07) we drove to Cedar City and checked in our hotel. We went and found a park and had a nice picnic lunch. Then we drove about 25 miles up a very windy road to go to Cedar Breaks National Monument - only to find out at the top that the road was closed. We were bummed, but it was a pretty drive. Later we walked around a neighborhood just to get out - then we went out to dinner to this steak house that was recommended by the hotel. It was horrible and to top it off expensive. So that wasn't our best day, but everything got better after that.....
Friday, April 6th. We went to Kolob Canyon in Zion's National Park. We did a short hike and took lots of pictures. It was a beautiful canyon and perfect weather. We then drove toward the main part of Zion's Park. We stopped and ate a picnic lunch and found a used book store and stopped and browsed - we even bought a couple of old books for Mike to read to the little one one the way. We then ate a picnic lunch in Springdale (right outside of Zion's) and then caught a bus into Zion's. I don't really like the bus system - the put it in place to cut out on traffic and pollution, but you can't see the scope of it from the bus and they are crowded and you have to wait in line (it's like Disneyland in the great outdoors). I understand what they are trying to do, but I think that with 3 million visitors last year and they charge $80 for an annual pass, and $25 for the day - they should come up with a better bus. Once we got into the park we went on a hike called the Grotto and connected with Emerald Falls - VERY NICE! We didn't do anything like Angel's Landing - a little to strenous with my pregnancy. It was really fun though. We then went to an Imax movie on Cowboys - just to sit down for a bit. It was cool, but focused more on horses than cowboys, we were a little disappointed. Then we went back into Springdale and at dinner at this wonderful restaurant called Oscars! It was fabulous. We did a bit of shopping then went back to the hotel and watched a movie.
Saturday, April 7th. We got up early and drove to Bryce National Park. I had been there years and years ago, but didn't remember it. In fact, I had hiked the Narrows at Zion's and Angel's Landing and loved ZIon's, but this time I think I liked Bryce better. I took Mike on a surprise helicopter ride in Bryce (for his birthday) - it was amazing! We did that first thing and it was really cool - a very different perspective of the park. Then we went and drove through the park and stopped and ate lunch. After lunch we did this amazing hike called Navajo Loop and then Two Bridges. It was an elevation drop of 550 feet, so coming up was a bit more difficult, but not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I really only had to stop 2x's. We met this really cool couple from Maryland and they were about 20 years older than us, but we hike most of the way with them passing younger people on the way. We took a ton of pictures - which I will download to Snapfish. It was really amazing - almost unbelieveable that it is just nature - it looks like something from outer space. We then did a short hike to a place called Mossy Cave - which was also beautiful. Then we drove to Panguitch and met up with Chris and Bob. He (he is a chiropractor) worked on both Mike and I - I had a horrible headache and within 2 hours of him working on me - it was gone! It was amazing - I didn't have to take anything. Then they took us to dinner at this amazing Cowboy steakhouse - it was the best steak we had in ages! Mike and Bob told stories of their childhood - both grew up on farms in remote places. It was such a fun night! How I wished we lived closer. -I forgot on the way to Bryce that morning we saw two bald eagles in their nest at the top of a tall - probably 200 feet - dead tree. It was so cool. We stopped and got the binoculars out and watched them for awhile - I think one was probably sitting on an egg and the other was hunting for breakfast. We also saw pronghorn deer and white-tailed deer at Bryce. Really cool stuff!
All in all it was an amazing vacation.
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