June 17, 2013  Monday

This morning we left for a campground 18 miles from Zion National Park.

It was a short very pretty drive.

To give a little idea of the difference in campsites

below you can see pictures of our site in Vegas

 

 

I couldn't believe someone was staying in the little silver one,

but they were.



 

and now,the one here in Hurricane. So

different, but both are in the desert.

 

 

Near Zion National Park

 Right now, Ton is sitting outside enjoying the beauty of this campground.  So clean, with tree lined streets and all amenities you could ever want, so we love it.   In the meantime, I’m inside for a while doing this blog since they have fast Internet connections.    They also have cable TV with over 100 stations so even though we haven’t been watching TV it is available here.  The name of this nice park is Willowind RV in Hurricane, Utah & it is convenient to everything

This is the registration office

and clubhouse

This afternoon we drove to Zion National Park visitor center to get information before going tomorrow, since it is so close us.   

Jodi loves adobe style homes so this for her.  It’s not finished and is being built by the homeowners.  They live in this part while building on the other part.  We passed it on the road so turned around into their street to see it. We think it’s cool

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Below is the addition



 

Tuesday

Today we left for Zion and when we arrived it was packed and we couldn’t find a parking place, so we did the auto tour on our own and then went to the Visitors center to look for a parking place again so we could do the other scenic route that can only be done by their shuttles.  This way it worked out perfectly.

 A house on the hill on our way in

 Line at the entrance to the park

 Beautiful formations & colors

We won't be volunteering for this job.  The guy on the

cliff is several thousand feet high.  Ton zoomed in to get him at work.



 Shrubs and Plants growing out of the rock

 

This is as close as I could get to riding a horse.

The trail rides were booked up.

 

 A single flower coming from the stone.

 

 I think I'm lost

 This natural cave looks like someone  painted the inside.

The formations and colors were beautiful.

 

 This is called checkerboard mountain

 

 

My brave mountain climber

 These three mountains are called

Abraham, Isaac & Jacob

The more colorful one on the right is Jacob

as he wore a coat of many colors

 

 

Ton took a nice hike down to the creek and waterfall and I waited at the shuttle stop. 

It was nice for me too as they had a nice breeze there.

 

 A very unusual flower

 This is called the Virgin River

 Right at home blending with the rocks

 A small waterfall

 This is weeping rock as it looks like

the rock is crying as it drips water

 My honey doing what he loves best

Exploring and taking pictures

 Heading back home after a long tiring day.

At least supper will be ready in the crock pot:)