Day 7 of the Grand Circle

This morning everyone was up and out of the park before 9:30 AM.  We didn't have far to travel, but we gained and hour traveling back to Utah.  It started off with a nice sunny day but as you will soon see we ran into a little bit of rain.

 We started the day at 7800 feet, but by the first 30 plus miles we had dropped to about 5120.  But before we got to highway 12 we were back up to 7400 feet.

The sun has gone behind the clouds.

 Are we going to fit!!!!

We were about 4 miles before the Ruby's RV Park.  It was like the sky opened up and dumped rain.  It did take a few or almost all of the bugs off of the front of the coach.  By the time we got to our site it had stopped raining long enough for us to get set up and inside before it broke lose again.  It rained off and on the rest of the day.

We even had a great rainbow!!!
After dinner we headed up to sunset point, hoping to see the sunset.

As we left the park and entered Bryce Canyon it started to rain a little.

We even seen this doe trying to decide if it wanted to cross the road.  It went back into the woods to much traffic now.

We got a great spot to stop at Sunset Point, but before long it was thundering and the rain started to really fall.

As you can tell by the way these folks were heading back to their car, the rain was really falling hard.

We left Sunset Point and headed into the park farther hoping to see some wild.  We came across a few pronghorn.

Not far down the road we seen a few more deer.  So we didn't get to see the Sunset at Sunset Point, but we did see some wild life.

Day 6 of The Grand Circle

Today we explored the North Rim of The Grand Canyon.  Everyone left on there own.

We explored the lodge and trails around the lodge.  Yes, Cyndy and I did some hiking and I know that some of you find that hard to believe.  We were running out of air but when you look at the altitude we are at 8890 we did pretty good and got a few good pictures.  But again, these pictures do not do justice for what we seen.

This was looking out below the lodge.

There were a few blue birds flying around the lodge.

Our next stop was at Point Imperial, We enjoyed a great lunch here, just watching time go by.

As we were walking out to Cape Royal we found some of our guest looking at the sights.

We were able to see the Colorado River from the Point Royal look out.

Everyone had a great day.  The sights were out of this world.  Tomorrow we head to Bryce Canyon for another wonder of this great world.

Day 4 & 5 of the Grand Circle Tour

Well day 4 was a free day for our guess.  We started the morning out with breakfast in a bag for them.  Then they were off and running in all directions.  Some went shopping, some went hiking back up in Zion, and others checked out other sites around St. George. Then there was those that just took it easy and relaxed a little, but that is what a free day is for.
On Day 5 we started our first move to a new camp ground. It is located in Jacob Lake, AZ, just out side of North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  We had people heading out at three different times, because we are stopping at our first National Monument, Pipe Spring.  As we were heading down the road we went by this really strange rock formation.

 Now tell me does this looks like Noah's Ark.

The formations were great today and the drive was great also.  We went from 2800 feet to just over 8000 feet.

Pipe Springs National Monument was amazing.  There is so much history here I do not have the time or room to write about it.  It was a Mormon fort that also was a working farm that supplied a lot of food for St, George.  Here are a few pictures of the area.

 Garden area!!!

In this room,a hole was located in the ceiling.  Boys at the age of 12 to 14 would be stationed up there to watch for incoming guest.  At which time they would yell down to their mom and say people are coming set another plate.

As you can see, you can see forever.

The young lady telling us about this place had a lot of great knowledge.  It was interesting to hear that they made up to 80 lbs of cheese, and I can't remember how much butter.  You have to remember this was more then a farm it was a big ranch also.

After we all made it into the camp ground we had a nice camp fire.

Its nice watching some on else work a little~!~!

And he did a great job getting some good coals for cooking hot dogs &

This was great, you take a roll of Grans refrigerated biscuits and form one around the top half of the stick.  Then you slow cook it over the fire.

 You slowly turn them untell there golden brown and pull them off the stick, you have a bun for hot dogs or fill them up with your favorite filling.

As you can see everyone got into the cooking dough.  It was fun and tasted great.  Will have to do this again.  Tomorrow we head to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Day 3 of The Grand Circle

This morning we were up early and out the door, then on the bus for a ride to Zion National Park.  Everyone was excited about going to our first National Park today.

We made a stop at Checker Board mountain to get this great group picture.  Everyone was good about getting off the bus and getting together before taking their own pictures.  Thanks to all.
Here are a few pictures that I took today as we were going through Zion.

This is one of the tunnels that we went through today.  You can see the cuts in the walls from the boring machine that they used.  They only let traffic through one way at a time.  The sides are 11 feet 6 inches and the center is 13 plus feet.  This tunnel is just over 1 mile long.

They put these window in the tunnel so they had a way of getting material out of the tunnel.
We had a great day and seen some wild life.

It is amazing how sure foot these animals are.

One of our stops today was the Weeping Rock.  We had a hike of about 1/4 mile, but all up, at least I though so.  It was well worth the trip up to watch the water coming out of the sandstone.

You can see some of the water running pretty good out of a few places.

You can tell by some of the shirts there a few big drops falling from the roof of this out crop.  We had a great day and seen some great rock formations.

But the last stop of the day was a Ice Cream shop and gift store.  The Ice Cream was right up my alley.  I think just about everyone enjoyed and the shopping.  Tomorrow brings another day and the guest get a free day, so who knows where most of them will end up.  I heard one of them say I am going to the laundry mat first!!!