Zion National Park

May 5 – May 11, Mon-Sun ... Monday was another day on the farm. Mike got a little bored so he decided ‘we’ should clean out Denita & Steve’s garage. Tuesday, we road with Doug in the tractor while he was seeding a field. He has a GPS & Steering system that we had to check out. It’s similar to an ‘auto pilot’ on an airplane. It’s pretty cool how you can just sit there and let it drive the tractor (of course that is after programming it). The marvels of modern farming is something to behold.
On Tuesday afternoon we headed back to Great Falls. We had dinner at Borie’s where we enjoyed their wonderful broasted chicken.
Wednesday we got on a plane at 610am. We had a 2 hr connection in Salt Lake City and then arrived at St. George at 11am. We got settled into to our RV Park, which is located in Harrisburg, UT (between St. George & Hurricane which is just off I15).
Thursday we caught up on laundry and hit the Walmart for groceries.
Friday we drove 32 miles to Zion National Park. Although you couldn’t say it was crowded, there were quite a few people in the park, many of them from foreign countries. We visited the museum and then boarded one of the shuttle busses up the mountain to the eight stops it makes along the way. The scenery in this park is difficult to describe in words. It’s absolutely awesome in every sense of the word. We went on two different hikes; one to the “weeping rock”, a short hike of about .5 miles and another hike to the “canyon overlook”. This hike was about a mile in length and the view at the top was simply beautiful to say the least. You could see for miles, including the canyon road we came up on. There is so much to see in this park so our plan is to come back another day next week.
Saturday, we drove a short distance from our rv park to BLM (government} land called Red Cliffs and hiked along a stream back into a canyon that led to a small water fall. Once there, we watched some young people repel down a cliff of about 100 feet. It was exciting to watch as the guys (and gals} came over the top and easily let themselves down the side. It was a sport neither of us had witnessed up close before.
Sunday we went to a Mother’s Day breakfast at the park where mother’s ate for free and received a rose. Later in the day we went to a fellow rv’ers campsite to visit with them and another couple.