Highlights from Day Two

From 2007-Q3-Zion ...

We started the morning with a drive to Zion from St. George. Along the way we saw this terrific old ghost town playland (photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/m5williams/865604776/). Then on to Zion. We rode the Zion Shuttle for about two hours taking in all the beautiful scenery. The kids took hundreds of photos of the Canyon (check the flickr site, or my Picasaweb site for them).

Zion was so beautiful! It's like the Grand Canyon on a small scale with easier access. Bryce was AMAZING! The Hoodoo were so incredible. Unfortunately, we only spent about one hour there because it was raining. Also, the temperature lowered dramatically! It was 114 degrees in St. George, UT and 58 at Bryce Canyon (about 2.5 hours away).

One of the highlights for everyone was the rain. We haven't seen a real rainstorm in a couple of years (we've had about three inches of rain in LA in the past 13 months).

After Bryce it was a long drive to Moab. We slept in today and are en route Arches National Park and to Winter Park, CO tonight then on to Rocky Mountain National Park tomorrow.