Today was a lazy day. We promised the kids they could sleep in this morning since we’ve pretty much been running them ragged, so at promptly 9:00:01, we woke them up to start our day. Got moving around 11 and drove to Bryce National Park – famous for its “hoodoos”. Hoodoos are these amazing pillars that are formed by the wind blowing and shaping sandstone. One is fine, but put thousands of them together and you’ve got yourself a pretty nice photo op.
We made a few stops in Bryce, but at 9,000 feet, the hiking/breathing combination was taking its toll, so we did a lot more of driving to a viewpoint, jumping out, taking pictures, and jumping back in haRVey. It didn’t help that the wind chill felt like it was about 20 degrees and the wind was blowing like crazy.
After Bryce, we had a 2-hour drive to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. Basically when the wind blows, there is some mystical formula by which really small particles of sand dissolve in the air and really big ones are too heavy to move, but everything in between gets deposited in one area of Utah – it is pretty cool to see these massive “pink” (they are actually light orange) sand dunes in the middle of dessert/canyons. For the most part, the park is for ATVers – we just took a look, ran around a little, baggied up some sand as souvenirs, and left. Probably would have stayed longer, but the wind was really strong (ergo the dunes) and the sand was so fine that particles were getting everywhere.
After leaving the dunes, we should have had a 30 minute drive to Zion but luckily realized that there is a tunnel that haRVey was too big to get through in the park, so we drove about 100 miles through Arizona and Utah to get to the other side of the park and the opposite entrance.
Nice evening in haRVey eating dinner, chilling, and watching a movie. We are now camped in Leeds, UT, waiting to go to Zion tomorrow for our last day in haRVey.
Quote of the Day:
Some random kid in Bryce: Dad, why do you have to take so many pictures of rocks?
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