April 29 - 2018 Glendale, Utah

 

When we were in Bryce Canyon yesterday, JJ said, “how can the next canyon possibly impress us after this”.
Today, April 29th, we went to Zion National Park, and once again, we were impressed😊

 

The native Americans called Zion “up and down land”. That is a very good description of the place.

 

 

The scenic route in the park can only be seen, at this time of the year, by taking a shuttle bus (bus der kører rundt i parken).
JJ would rather drive himself, but when we got to the park, shortly after 8 am, we saw why they don’t allow people to drive around in their cars. The place was packed! It would be total chaos, if everyone tried driving and parking on the narrow route.

 Some of the things we saw:

 

 

Court of the Patriarchs - named by the Mormons (so is Zion Park)
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

We saw mule deer, wild turkeys, squirrels, and this little guy😊

 

At the start of "The Narrows"
It is a walk through a narrow canyon, through the river.
We didn't walk the narrows, but it looked like a popular place.

 

The place was really nice, but we actually were equally impressed by the drive to and from the park, on Highway 9. We are camping east of Zion, so we entered the park at the east entry. (Most people enter through the southern entry.) It was 15 miles of scenic drive, and a lot of the scenery was unique to what we have seen before. We took just as many pictures on Hwy 9, as we did on the scenic route. Here are a few chosen:

 

 

 

 

 

 Written by Mary

P.S. We just saw a commercial (tv reklame), that we will not see anywhere else but in the state of Utah. It was for a “missionary starter package”. You get 2 suits, 4 shirts, 4 ties, and a pair of shoes for $495 😊 😊