Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon was our third day of hiking and quite possibly the most strenuous. The hike down into the Canyon was fine. It was the hike up and out that kicked our derriere's. If you used a little imagination, you could make the hoodoos (the rock formations) look like all kinds of things! After we finished that hike, neither John nor I had any desire to do anymore hiking that day so we decided to drive to all of the lookouts in the park. It's hard to believe that half of the park is a pine forest! We were a little outnumbered at the lookouts. It seemed like most of the people spoke French or another foreign language.

After several hours of driving to the vistas (and some ice cream!) we mustered the energy for one last (short) hike to the waterfall. We are so glad we did it. It was only 1 mile round trip with no big up and down portions. This was the perfect time to view waterfalls in the are due to the snow meltoff. I must note that Carson was fast asleep during the last part of the drive but wouldn't you know he woke up the minute we pulled into the parking lot to get ice cream! The boy LOVES ice cream!

We had such a great trip. John and I were so excited when we arrived in the parks. We were like kids in a candy store! We had watched so many specials about the national parks on the Travel Channel in Arkansas. We would always talk about going 'someday' but it always felt like that someday would either be way off in the future or would not really come. We feel soooo blessed to have the opportunity to explore God's creation out here!!

One more thing. The temperature was wonderful on the trip. Usually 70s with the lows dipping in the 30s. Thank goodness the camper has a good heater! Then we came home to highs over 100 here in the valley! Yuck!