After Jordyn's state meet, we headed to Snow Canyon where we camped Saturday night, we got our tent up and all situated. I took the kids rock climbing and we got to watch some young kids learning how to rock climb with ropes. It was pretty amazing! We had hot dogs for dinner and Zack built his own fire in the fire pit! He was so proud (what a pyro!). Zack ended up with some kind of rash from rolling around in the grass at the state meet, so I had to get up and take him for a shower in the middle of the night. Poor guy! He also had to chew a Zyrtec because he can't swallow pills (geez)!
Sunday we got up and hit the road to Zion Canyon. We went to Weeping Rock and Grandma Bev made the .60 mile hike up a trail despite her back and hip pain. I thought she was going to fall off the cliff a couple of times, but we made it up and back. It was so beautiful and we wished we could have seen more sites. Jordyn was scared to drive through the mile long tunnel, so we headed back to the campsite a little early. We stopped at some gift shops on the way back and the kids both got some recycled glass that were pretty cool. You know Zack, he is a "digger!"
When we got close to the canyon, we noticed a pup tent flying across the road in a residential area (not a good sign). We found our tent flattened by the hurricane winds that had started. There were black clouds looming and because of the strength of the winds, we decided to pack up and head home. I wanted to stay and probably would have if my mom wouldn't have been there, Jordyn was crying because she wanted to stay too. It just wouldn't have worked out. So, we loaded up the van and just as we were leaving, we had a huge "Cicada" bug flying around in the van, I said "Oh, my God, its a Gargoyle!" Too funny! We got it out of the van, then started out of the canyon just in time because it started to rain!
We hit some snow around Beaver and almost stopped to stay in a hotel, but we pushed through and made it home around 11:30 p.m. that night. What a nightmare!
My mom stayed for two more nights, then headed back to California. I am sure she was happy to be home after our crazy adventure!
Until next year . . . . . . .
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