Wednesday, October 03, 2007
The Schafer Family Tour-o-Rocks
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Rocks!
Glorious Rocks!
Utah, Zion National Park
Weeping rock
They said that water was coming OUT of the mountain. Intresting to people who come fromt he midwest and don’t live with giant rocks.
It was 100 plus degrees and we were hiking around rocks. Jen tries on country bumpkin hat in gift shop. i have a pin head.
And on our drive to Glen Canyon Utah we drove thru Zion Park. This was a senic area to stop and take pictures
So then we drove for hours to get to Lake Powell/Glen Canyon Utah.
This part of the trip was all for my dad. He really really wanted to see rocks.
We stayed at the resort, and there’s basically like 2 access roads into this place. They said you wouldn’t be able to pick out constellations cause there’d be too many stars in the sky.
they weren’t kidding. Nat and i sat outside in the dark looking up at the sky and the whole milky way for about 3 hours. You couldn’t get enough of it. The stars twinkled! I didn’t know they did that.
Flash forward to 7am. We board a boat. For the 3.5 hour boat ride to Rainbow Bridge. oy.
what do you do with a 4 yr old on a boat for 7 hours?
play a lot of rock, paper, scissors
play checking to see if uncle nat is really taking a picture of me or not, cause if he is i’ll run away
so now the rocks looked like this
so we are out in the 103 degree sun with no shade and dock, only to hike 30 min to Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Look how small my parents look relative to the rocks.
then we finally saw it.
then we did one of those hold your camera in front of you things, and nat had to lift his sunglasses..cause you couldn’t see him frown, but he smiled some..got it on record
this thing is so huge pictures just make it look small. So then we spent an hour at this rock then hiked back to the boat, then rode the 3.5 hour ride back to the resort, only to climb into a van and drive 4 hours back to vegas. We were one batch of grouchy, heat exhausted, midwesterners. ugh dry heat or not, that 100 degree with no shade thing kills us city folk.
So there you have it..the schafer family tour of rocks 2007. Thanks to Dad for hauling all our butts out there to see ginormous rocks, and that pretty cool bridge.
Posted by Jennifer on 10/03 at 10:06 PM ♥ Comments (8)
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2. left this comment on 10/04 at 05:59 AM:
despite the sweat, heat and boredom of the boat ride, what an amazing destination!!! beautiful!!!!
3. left this comment on 10/04 at 07:04 AM:
Oh wow, what a gorgeous place! Thanks for the pictures...now I wanna go!
4. left this comment on 10/04 at 08:55 AM:
I love giant rocks! Great pics.
5. left this comment on 10/04 at 09:53 AM:
Welcome to the West, Jen. See? There is life beyond the corn fields. :) You should come to California. We don’t have the gorgeous rock formations like they do in Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, but we have desert, ocean, redwood forest, plain old forest, and everything in-between. Paradise. And weather that just doesn’t stop being gorgeous.
You live in the wrong place (ducking).
6. left this comment on 10/04 at 11:05 AM:
What a beautiful place! Bummer about the heat, though…
7. left this comment on 10/04 at 11:54 AM:
amazing scenery, it always shocks me when an american says howbad the heat is, I always assume your all used to it, which I suppose is as bad a stereotype as all scots wear kilts daily LOL!!!
8. left this comment on 10/05 at 09:49 AM:
You came to my state!! :) Yes, our heat is dry, and it does get nice and toasty here. Looks like you had a good time though, and I am happy that you were able to enjoy our rocks. Come more north next time and see a whole different variety of rocks, the kind you can ski down. ;)
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1. Night Owl #1 left this comment on 10/03 at 10:50 PM:
very awesome rocks! love them! esp the weeping one. not that i like seeing rocks cry, its very sad, you know, cause of that heart of stone they have and all...yeah, ok, bad joke. :D Anyway!