Utah Trip Day 1

We left at 8:00 am sharp from my parents. We had driven there the night before. The plan had been for us to take both our cars so that when Kirk flew back into Long Beach the following week my parents could pick him up and he would have his truck there to drive home. We drove to State Line and stopped at Carl's Jr. for lunch. I'm not sure why, but that was the best decision ever. They had a play area and they thought it was awesome! We then drove on to St. George where we stopped to see the temple and actually walk through the visitor's center. So beautiful and peaceful. Our hotel was in Hurricane, which is only about 15 minutes from there.

When we arrived at our lovely hotel (yuck! Seriously couldn't stand the carpets and upholstery. I couldn't think about it too much or I would have seriously had to leave). We took our bags inside, relaxed for a short time and then decided to head over to Zion's since when you buy a pass to enter it's good for 7 days. We were about 1/2 hour from the entrance. We drove the part that we were allowed to and saw just how beautiful Zion's is. We even got to go through the over 1 mile tunnel. That was VERY exciting!

Once on the other side of the tunnel we found this really neat area to climb up, so we pulled over and hiked up a little. It made for pretty pictures.

After all that we went over to the Visitor's Center for a potty break and to look around.

After we left the park we went to a little place called Pioneer Restaurant (only in Utah, right?) and had dinner. It was surprisingly good! I'd go back again for sure.

By the time we got back to our hotel it was about 9:00 or later. We had showers and went to bed. Ahhhhhh. Nice day! I was certain this was going to be one of our best trips ever. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.