We decided to go to southern Utah over spring break this year. Our trip started out on a bad note when we hadn't even gotten to Twin yet and both of the portable DVD players we had brought weren't working. Of course Brooke wasn't happy...about every thirty seconds she would let out a BIG sigh and make some comment like...."so we can't watch movies the whole time", or "I wanted to watch a movie right now". So, after about ten comments Dave said he would buy a new one when we got to Burley. We drove to Provo, spent the night and headed to St George the next morning. We plugged in Brittney's IPOD and sang and danced for quite awhile, which was fun.
When we got there we discovered that it was warm. I was wearing a long sleeved shirt and had to go change because it was too hot. We spent Wed. shopping, playing volleyball in the parking lot, playing cards, and the girls went swimming in the pool.
Thursday we went to Zion National Park, which was spectacular. What you see in a picture can't really describe how awesome and huge it was. The colors were amazing.
We decided to go on some of the hikes that they have there. This was the kids at the beginning of our first hike.
We went clear to the end of the trail, which was narrow and full of people. At the end we came to a place that was enclosed by the canyon walls and had a pond with a waterfall coming off the mountain. We had been hot while we were hiking, but here it was nice and cool and shaded. It was really neat.
Dave, Colton and Brooke decided to climb through a ton of rocks around the pond and over to where the waterfall was coming down. There was even a patch of snow left over there.
As we were coming back down the path Brooke said, "That was really cool. I hope I never will forget that." We did two other hikes, one being the Weeping Wall which was water coming down off a rock and you actually go behind it. It was kind of like being out in a sprinkle of rain. I was hoping this picture of Dave and Colton would show the water falling behind and on them, but you can't really see it.
After the hikes we drove through the park more. We got to drive through a really long tunnel that actually went through the mountain. Brooke thought it was really fun to yell in the tunnel. After we left the park we stopped at a little tourist shop that had a small museum full of animals (taxidermy) put in a realistic setting. Brooke and Lindsay thought it was really cool and they took a ton of pictures of all these stuffed animals which I thought was kind of funny. Of course Dave and Brooke had to goof off with the bear.
