The plan was to get to a 9:00am Sacrament meeting. But after the 3rd straight post 2:00am bed time I was pretty trashed.
Jodie booked all the motels on this leg of our trip and this Best Western was a great room. It had 3 queen sized double beds which meant we did not have to inflate the blow up mattress. Right down the street is the Temple, which when lit at night looks majestic.
We eventually all got and made an 11:00am Church. It took us 2.5 minutes to drive from our motel to the chapel. We actually could have walked.
The Motel let us check out late @ 1:00pm and we headed out to Zion's National Park and then onto Page Arizona on the shore of lake Powell.
It was quite a hot day today. When you get to Zion's you have to park your car and then a shuttle bus drives you were you need to go. We decided on the Emerald Pools, which when we got there I must admit feeling underwelmed it was like and creek/waterfall you would she in a National Park back home.
It clouded over which made photography pretty dull. That seems to be how I rate places by how well I can photograph. But it does have some magnificent canyons, colours and features. Having only a few hours there does not do it justice.
Thomas got another souvenir penny, we went back to the base and the car and then drove through the park in daylight this time. It was pretty spectacular. Once again we drove through the tunnel which is in fact only 1.5 miles long.
We then drove for another 2 hours to Page Arizona on the shore of Lake Powell. Lake Powell was formed when they built the Glen Canyon Dam. About 7 klms from the dam wall the Colorado river does a 270 Degree turn creating 'horseshoe bend'. A spectacular natural phenominum. I photographed this put i'll share that experience tomorrow.
You actually drive over a bridge which is almost directly on top of the dam. You can walk accross the bridge and take pics. Courtney and Genna were running and jumping and crossing the road to the other side which absolutely petrified me. Because this big wuss of an author is terrified of heights.
JUmping back into the car we went to the motel. The most expensive of our trip so far @ $180 per night. It was something directly out of the seventies. It looked like the motels on the movies like 'casino' or a Dean Martin, Sammy Davies Junior movie.
But it was a place to sleep and gave us the rest we needed.
Jodie booked all the motels on this leg of our trip and this Best Western was a great room. It had 3 queen sized double beds which meant we did not have to inflate the blow up mattress. Right down the street is the Temple, which when lit at night looks majestic.
We eventually all got and made an 11:00am Church. It took us 2.5 minutes to drive from our motel to the chapel. We actually could have walked.
The Motel let us check out late @ 1:00pm and we headed out to Zion's National Park and then onto Page Arizona on the shore of lake Powell.
It was quite a hot day today. When you get to Zion's you have to park your car and then a shuttle bus drives you were you need to go. We decided on the Emerald Pools, which when we got there I must admit feeling underwelmed it was like and creek/waterfall you would she in a National Park back home.
It clouded over which made photography pretty dull. That seems to be how I rate places by how well I can photograph. But it does have some magnificent canyons, colours and features. Having only a few hours there does not do it justice.
Thomas got another souvenir penny, we went back to the base and the car and then drove through the park in daylight this time. It was pretty spectacular. Once again we drove through the tunnel which is in fact only 1.5 miles long.
We then drove for another 2 hours to Page Arizona on the shore of Lake Powell. Lake Powell was formed when they built the Glen Canyon Dam. About 7 klms from the dam wall the Colorado river does a 270 Degree turn creating 'horseshoe bend'. A spectacular natural phenominum. I photographed this put i'll share that experience tomorrow.
You actually drive over a bridge which is almost directly on top of the dam. You can walk accross the bridge and take pics. Courtney and Genna were running and jumping and crossing the road to the other side which absolutely petrified me. Because this big wuss of an author is terrified of heights.
JUmping back into the car we went to the motel. The most expensive of our trip so far @ $180 per night. It was something directly out of the seventies. It looked like the motels on the movies like 'casino' or a Dean Martin, Sammy Davies Junior movie.
But it was a place to sleep and gave us the rest we needed.
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