April 28-30 Bryce Canyon

While in Bryce Canyon we took a four mile hike to the base of the canyon.  It was half a mile straight down and half a mile straight up.  We thought we wasn't going to make it, but we did.  The views were so beautiful that I would do it again in a heart beat.

Start of the hike looking down

See the little people?
That's where we are walking down to.

These are views from the bottom. 

It was a beautiful walk

And this is the walk out!

Looking up at the switch backs

Looking down from the top of the switch backs

Last look back

We still had more switch backs after this and we had to walk

back to the car.

This is Agua Canyon

Black Birch Canyon SNOW

 Beautiful wild life.  The Raven stood there and just let me walk closer and take pictures.  

Dad said, "Rainbow Point looks good on Google Earth".  

So we checked it out.  Pretty Cool!!

The next stop is Capital Reef.  

April 23-26 Zion National Park

It was so nice to have friends take us on a guided tour of Zion.  Bob and Flo drove in from Vegas to show us around.

View of the Arch

Critter we seen.  Look at the shadow.

Water fall dry

After the rain

Middle Emerald Pond

Middle Emerald pond 

Love the water marks

The moon

Like the flag and the mountain 

Lots of steps

Love the contrast

Bob, Flo and Bill

Water at the Narrows

My dad said we needed to check out the coral pink sand dunes.

It was worth the side trip.

We have one more day in Bryce Canyon then we are off to Capital Reef and then Moab.

April 14-22, 2015 Salt Lake City

The weather report said 70 degrees in Salt Lake City.  My dad called and said "watch out for the wind".  What a day. We had 70 mile per hour winds coming over not 70 degree temps.  Oh and SNOW!!

Yep that's ice on the front of the rig.  It was a first.  This was a spring snow for Salt Lake City that lasted 24 hours.  The last one was 10 years ago.

These pictures were taken around Temple Square, home of the Latter Day Saints.  We spent a couple of days at the Family Ancestry Center and learned so much.

 

This is a picture of our traveling companion Flat Stanley.

He is traveling with us at the request of our

great-nephew Camden.

These pictures are at Antelope Island.  This is where we seen 

the great salt lake. 

 This guy came up for a scratch.  Made my day.

We also thought we would check out the Hill Air Museum.

We are on our way to Zion but we

wont be going through the tunnel.