Day #3 Zion's Vacation Labor Day Weekend

We decided for day 3 we would take all the kids on the Riverside Walk. Witch is a paved 2 mile walk before the Narrows Trail.

The beginning of the Narrows Trail.

Here is the end of the paved trail.

We started dividing up and find our walking sticks.
Britney and Edris said they would stay with there kids so that their husbands, Scott, Riley, Jason, Tyree and me could go adventure on the Narrows Trail.

The Narrows is rated a strenuous hike which is 9.4 miles round trip.

You spent most of your time in the river.

As you can see in this picture there where some very deep stops along the way.

(Look at the waterlines on our shirts)

This picture is looking down stream.

This is about 2 or so miles in. It was the first time we stopped and dare take out our cameras.

These two pictures are looking up stream.

Note the waterline on Mark. He is about 6' 4", I was swimming in some places to say the least.

We were having so much fun we decided to keep on going.

This is where we turned around.

We all hiked just above this waterfall.

Here is an example of how we got done from the waterfall.

We re-energized here and decided we better turn around and get back the ladies with the crazies.

(the kids)

We figured we did over half the trail so probably 6 or so miles round trip.

Here is another picture of the waterfall as we were saying good bye.Here is the trail if we would have kept going.After we meet up with others we decided to take the kids to a splash pad in Laverkin.

This was James' kind of fun.

The bathing beauties.

Sydney Jane

Ainsley and Letley

Riley and Jason felt there time would be best spent taking a nap.

Grady and Andrew

The parents with Britney behind the camera.

Oh yeah, note the In and Out burger cups.

An air conditioned restaurant was what we needed for lunch.

Day #2 Zion's Vacation Labor Day Weekend

We took the kids on two little hikes on day 2.

The first one we did was called Weeping Rock.

It was just a half mile walk on a paved path.
The cut out area of the rock was really cool.

It is hard to tell in the pictures but it was weeping water over the top of us.

We got up early so we had the trails to our selves.

It was so beautiful there.

The second hike we did was called Emerald Pools.

There were two pools you could hike to.

We did both so it was about 2 miles round trip.

As usual my favorite part is the lush green growing through the red rock.

Just before the first pool there was this beautiful waterfall you walked under on the trail.

Here is a resting spot in the shade at the first pool.

On the way to the second pool we passed through this narrow area with a tree growing up through the middle.

Yeah we made it to the second pool.

One thing I learned in Zions National Park is always to look up.

It is usually your best views.

Here is a picture of the second pool.

We stayed at the end for quit awhile and enjoyed the nature we saw.

Scott with a baby toad.

Riley with a tadpole.
I don't know what this is?

My favorite was the tree frogs.

They were every where.

It was a good day!

Day #1 Zion's Vacation Labor Day Weekend

The first day we just set up camp. I really liked the campsite.
It had a cool little stream that went around the campsite.

The shade trees were very nice.

We found a cute little friend that visited our stream.

Riley's 18th Birthday

I have an 18 year old, can you believe it?

Here he is at his potluck.

Him and his friend Nic went to Tucanos for his birthday dinner.

I love you Riley!

Hope you had a great day.