Zion National Park

After two hot days hiking at Zion and Bryce, we are pretty much wiped out. Fortunately tomorrow we will arrive at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in northern Utah for a little regrouping.

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Conversation of the Day (in the minivan):

Charlie: Where’s the Archie Comic?

Me: in the media bag.

Charlie (after about 5 seconds): I can’t find it.

Me: If you can’t find it, about 99% of the time you are not looking hard enough.

Charlie: Oh I found it.

Dan: Guess that wasn’t the 1% then.

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Here are a few highlights of our day at Zion:

 

Charlie enjoying the “rain” at Weeping Rock. Water is forced out through the walls of the canyon and drips or rains down. Pretty neat.

 On the Riverside Walk: "Squirrel!"

“Ack it’s coming towards me!”  The squirrels were fearless. I had one sneak up behind me as I was eating my pb&j sandwich and nearly steal a bite. 

“That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!”

In The Narrows

 On the Zion Shuttle Bus, with bonus photobomb by Charlie

Our last hike of the day was to the Lower Emerald Pools (the pool was more “Muddy Brown” than “Emerald” but whatever. Water falling from rocks is still cool.). We were tired and it was hot out (in the 90s) so the "rain" felt really good!

We went back to the Emerald Pools trailhead at the Virgin River. The kids decided to do some “fishing”…

Which of course led to complete submersion…

And some epic cannonballs. A great end to our day at Zion!