Grand Adventure, part two (revised)

Day Four

It's getting harder to blog... harder to remember everything that happens. It's funny, sometime during the day somebody will say something hilarious, and I'll say "I need to blog about that." And then when I finally find some time (I am on vacation after all) to sit down and makes some notes, I forget everything. And for those who already read this post, I realized I left off a day. See what I mean.

So... the real day four...

Day Four:

We left the Grand Canyon with a couple of the eastern end peeks at the views. When we stopped by the last area with a bookstore/giftshop, Kristen showed me a funny book called: Who Pooped in the Park? I picked it up and flipped through it… basically it was a children’s book showing kids how to recognize animals from the poop they leave behind. We were discussing this later at dinner, and Josh asked what we were talking about, so not really wanting to get into the whole poop thing at the dinner table, I just said “a Pooh book, you know, like Winnie the Pooh.” And then Bryan piped up with “you mean, Winnie’s Pooh and and Tigger’s too.” Geez. Where did these kids come from? Bryan then went on to say how he couldn’t wait to introduce his niece Lindsay to “Winnie’s Pooh.” Just a head’s up to Becca on that one!

We drove up along the eastern side through the Navajo Nation. We drove through Page, stopped at Burger King for lunch, then crossed the Glen Canyon Dam. Lake Powell is beautiful. There are many houseboats around there. Lake Powell to Utahn’s is like the Beach to Alabamian’s. They spend a week on a house boat, some buying partnerships into a 120,000 dollar houseboat like we’d buy into a timeshare at the beach. I’d love to go there sometime, on a big houseboat.

It was funny to see the boats as we drove into desert. There was a big boat marina storage, with no lake in sight. A funny place we saw was the Luxury Homes for sale, at a trailer park.

We decided to take a side trip to Zion’s Canyon National Park. We had bought the season pass to the national parks, so we could get into it basically for free. We drove into the East entrance, by the checkerboard mountain and through the tunnel to the natural arch. We turned around, and stopped at some cool rock formations that looked like red orange cake mix when you pour it into a pan. I guess you have to see it to understand. Then onto Bryce. We we got to Bryce Canyon National Park, we set up just outside the park at a private campground, so we had electricity! We needed it because we wanted to use the heater. It sure is colder at higher elevations. We ate dinner and then headed to the canyon of hoodoos. A hoodoo is a rock formation caused by the wind as opposed to water. It was so cool looking.

Day Five:

We woke up in our not so nice campground spot just 6 miles outside of Bryce Canyon. We had seen some of it the night before so we sort of knew what we were doing. We wanted to do a little hiking so soon after breakfast we headed to the Wall Street Section of Bryce Canyon. The boys took a hike down 27 switchbacks. I stayed behind because I wasn't thinking ahead and wore flip flops.

Then we drove to the end of the canyon to Rainbow Point and then back to Fairyland Point. The formations were awesome. Beautiful. Unique.

We had a picnic lunch.

We were done with red rock formations and canyons. So on to Provo. Kristen was anxious to get *home*.

4 hours or so later we arrived in Provo, set up camp and went to Brick Oven, an old college haunt of ours, to eat pizza with the Bryants. It's great having friends here in Utah.

Well, my internet access is over. I have to go. I'll try mobile blogging next.