Utah rocks!

Or at the very least there are lots of rocks there! I had a great time in Utah. We (friends Leona, Allyson, and Arlene) left Vegas Friday morning in the pouring rain. We stopped in Mesquite for Starbucks. Ironically half of HDPL's administration was in Mesquite for a conference. I thought it quite hilarious that we might run into them. Of course we didn't but we coulda! Our next stop was in Cedar City for lunch and to pick up groceries at the Wal-Mart there. It was pouring rain the entire way! In fact as we drove up the highest mountain (9910 ft) it started to snow! Quite a bit of snow at that. It was pretty tricky driving. It was curvy mountain roads with snow and ice! Thank goodness for my trusty Jeep! We got over the hump and into Duck Creek Village and checked into our lovely cabin. It was just pouring cold rain on us as we unloaded the Jeep, of course we all got soaked since at least one of us can't pack light! (ME!)

The cabin was great 3 bedrooms with double beds and a loft with two twins, two full baths, a full kitchen, a woodburning stove, and satellite TV. We decided since it was raining so much that we'd stay in the rest of the day, it was a little after 3:00 anyway. Leona made yummy mexican meatballs for dinner and we watched Battlestar Galaxia season premeier at Arlene's request. I thought it was pretty good. Arlene filled us in on all the bits we needed to know to follow.

Saturday dawned with a beautiful clear blue sky. We drove out to Bryce Canyon National Park. We checked out the visitors center and made phone calls as we had reception there. We drove to Fairview point and turned around to go back to Sunset point. We had a picnic of turkey sandwiches and then we started the Navajo and Queen's Garden Loop. It was pretty steep going down (and coming up for that matter!) I believe we descended and climbed a 32 story building! Absolutely beautiful! (If I figure out how to post my pictures I will!) We didn't see any animals but that's not a surprise us girls were pretty noisy. Silly that's what we are! Climbing back up was pretty hard. I had quite a bit of a time catching my breath as the switchbacks back up were pretty steep and the air was a lot thinner than I'm used to. But it was lots of fun and if I was a bit stiff that night it was well worth it! At the cabin we ate Turkey Lasagna and dump cake. We played hearts with Leona being the big winner and then we played Trivia 20th anniversary and Arlene was the big winner.
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