Three Dog Nigiht

Sept. 17
Yesterday we took a day trip to Zion National Park. Each park seems to be completely different from the other ones. Zion was no exception. The landscape was just totally unique. Huge does not do things justice around here. No hoodoos in Zion but massive land formations which are pretty indescribable. That what pictures are for I guess. We spent the day there, did a little walking but mostly just sight seeing. And what sights they were! It rained while we were there and on the way back. We got back, cold and tired and in spite of trying to talk ourselves out of it we stopped and got pizza for supper. Petty close to the best pizza I’ve ever had.

A THREE DOG NIGHT - The problem is we only have one dog and we left her and home. The forecast was for a low of 31. As far as I was concerned with no dog, it became a 2 sock night. The trusty ‘smart wool’ socks go in the feet. The usual pair of wimpy socks go on the hands. And of course, the hat goes on the head. I discovered that when you were a hat all night it feels as though it is still on your head during the day. Strange. We crawled into the tent early, without a campfire, and read for awhile. Another discovery – it is hard to hold a book, much less turn the pages with socks on your hands. It rained during the night which probably meant that it wasn’t cold enough to snow. Started out with a few drops, then the heavens opened – hard and heavy but it only lasted about 20 minutes-thank goodness.

They’ve had a lot of rain lately. The rangers are referring to the monsoon season that usually hits in August. Guess it was waiting for us. While we were at Zion yesterday, after a downpour, the rangers were out looking at the mountains at the museum center where we were. It was really inspiring to see them so excited watching the water falls that occurs because of the rain.

At the moment Jerry is off doing a ½ day hike-a decent to the floor of the hoodoos. Tomorrow we will probably move on to the Grand Canyon.