Bryce and Grand Canyons

Haven't posted in a few days. We had limited/sporadic Internet access at the Grand Canyon, but mainly I forgot.

We had a few long days in there, but we successfully saw Bryce Canyon, drove around the Grand Canyon to the South rim for a couple of days, celebrated Monica's birthday, and drove back around the Grand Canyon to St George. Monica is already off to her class this morning. I'm repacking the car and getting ready to start the trek back to Sammamish. I'll post more later tonight, but some quick highlights.

I hate when people -- usually athletes -- explicitly say "literally" when they're obviously speaking figuratively, such as "they're literally killing us out there". Now that's an ugly basketball game. That said, Bryce Canyon was literally breath taking. Now only was it a stunning view, unlike anything we're seen in person, but at an elevation of 8000 feet, a short walk made it hard to breathe.

While Bryce (and St. George, Kanab, and Springdale) aren't that far from the south rim as the crow flies (about 70 miles), there's a huge crevice in the ground :) that you have to drive around to get from the north side to the south side and it takes about five hours. And you thought driving around Lake Washington was bad. So we got to the Grand Canyon later than we expected but still had a great time. Like Bryce, there's simply nothing like it. And depending where you are, there are a lot of different features. It was very, very cool and one of the nice things about GCNP is that it's phenomenally more pet friendly than any National Park we've visited. When I get the pictures up, you'll see a lot of Hunny Bear at the Grand Canyon.

For Monica's birthday she wanted to visit a deer farm that's an hour south of where we were staying. So we headed to Williams for the afternoon. It was like a mini-zoo or a super sized petting zoo. The video of Monica feeding the deer is awesome, but the photos are good too.

Saturday, we saw the East rim of the Grand Canyon on our way out of town, stopped to check out Glen Canyon Dam over the Colorado river and headed to St George for the night with a few adventures along the way.