Our Trip to Bryce and Zion National Parks - by BT

 In the morning we went to Bryce Canyon National Park from our campsite which was just a little ways from it on the other side of Dixie National Forest. 

Bryce is famous for its hoodoos which are rock spires shading part of the canyon. 

We got to see Thor’s Hammer which is a hoodoo almost exactly like Thor’s Hammer. 

We had a fun time trying to make it look like we were holding the hammer for pictures. 

After a long way up we finally reached the top We helped ourselves to a nice lunch that mom had prepared for us in the RV.  A little more sightseeing and we headed off for Zion.

(I took this one.)

     On our way between Bryce and Zion we went into a rock shop. Mom and Dad spotted it and had to turn around the big RV because they knew we would love it. In the shop we got crystals: Amber, Blue Agate, Amethyst, Emerald Calcite and Zaddek got a galaxy stone. We don't have pictures of them yet though.

We also drove through wet snow coming down on the road in one of the canyons.

When we arrived at Zion we went into a big tunnel to get to the West side of the park. 

On the west side we saw Checker Board Mountain. It almost looked like someone spent a lifetime carving it, but it was not man made. 

We reached the sign in desk and got signed in to our RV camp at the gate. The next day we took the bus to Emerald Pools trail. 

                          We hiked to the lower pool and hiked right underneath a waterfall.

                                          We hiked up then down to reach the medium pool.

                                         At first when we saw the tarantula it was scary until
                                            I remembered that they aren't dangerous.  

                   We took the bus back around the loop and headed to the RV on to Grand Canyon.