Up this morning to pack. We had to adjust our luggage so we only had to take the one suitcase into our next destination. Since we only had one more hotel after tonight. We looked for a place to eat for breakfast and found a nice little breakfast place down the street on the way to the park. We both had french toast.
We drove to the visitor center and hopped on the bus. We took the bus to the end of the line and decided to take the river walk.
This was a very nice easy walk of about 2 miles round trip. The road is paved and can accommodate wheel chairs. The path follows the river to the end and where the narrows start. Along the way we ran into our token ground rodent.
Once we got to the end of the river walk, the road ended. The river was still too high and swift to walk down into the narrows.
We hiked our way back to the bus stop, and took the bus back to the Zion lodge stop. From this stop we decided to take the emerald pools loop. This is a trail the follows the canyon walls. There are two levels of the trail.
We decided to take the upper trail. This is a little bit longer and is cut higher in the mountain as a ledge. We hiked the trail to the pools, then continued around to the grotto bus stop. This was about a two mile trail.
At the half way point is the middle pool. We decided to rest a bit and enjoy the shade.
As we kept walking we could see the other side of the ravine where we walked. Can you make out the trail just above the ledge?
We reached the grotto bus stop and waited for our ride back to the lodge. We would have walked the extra 1/2 a mile, but wanted to get back in time for lunch. it was 2pm and they stopped serving lunch at 2:30pm.
We got back to the lodge about five after two and had to climb steps to lunch. Those were the hardest steps to climb 😉 We got a table and ordered our food. As you can see Angie was happy to finally be sitting down.
After lunch we did our shopping. I got a shirt and we found a penny machine. Angie wanted to get some ice cream. We sat outside the lodge in their rocking chairs and finished up the ice cream. We then headed back to the bus and took it back to the museum stop.
At this stop we watched the video of the history of Zion. Sine most of the parks we visited were all on the colorado plateau, the story was pretty much the same. Although each presentation has a slightly different story and you pick up a few new things.
After the video we boarded the bus back to the visitor center. We did one last pass through the souvenir shop and used the facilities before we got back in the car.
Back on the road, we headed down to Las Vegas. On the road we saw two notable sites. The first was a uhaul trailer that had flipped and was on fire, blocking the entire freeway. Fortunately nobody was hurt, and we could get off the freeway and back on to bypass the accident.
The other was a few semi-trailers I had never seen before. They had three trailers. I have never seen three being towed by a semi before. All of them were owned by Fed-Ex. I will have to ask my friend that works there how common those are.
We arrived in Vegas and checked into our hotel. We decided to stay at The Venetian hotel. The room was very nice. All of the rooms at the hotel are suites. We unpacked and got settled. Our shoes were a mess. Angie’s soles were completely shot and mine were worn down and covered in red dust from the rock in Utah. It’s time for new ones.
After a quick shower to get the dirt and grime off, we went down for dinner. We ate at their restaurant that was a lot like the cheesecake factory. I think it was run/owned by the same company. The food was good, but the service sucked. It took forever to get our drinks/appetizers/food/dessert. It was a good thing we were not in a hurry.
After dinner we headed back to the room for a good nights sleep.