We woke this morning early as the snow was meant to come later in the day so we thought we might be able to get in a few short hikes - no such luck. We drove out to one of the viewpoints - walked out - looked out across the cloud and snow thickening and decided that we would have to come back another time to check out Bryce canyon. The weather report was calling for much better weather at Zion so we decided to go ahead and see if we could get some good time in there.
As we drove along descending the mountains we kept looking at the thermometer waiting for it to start its ascent - and we waited, and waited - all the way to Zion where the temperature was barely higher than it had been in Bryce. The drive into Zion is spectacular though so we enjoyed it anyway.
We decided to get some food and see how the weather went - still raining. At this point we decided that we might as well check into the hotel and Andi could watch a playoff game and I would work on my assignment which is due on Friday and is driving me insane (it's a programming project with 7 pages of instructions!). A couple of hours later (and hardly any closer to finishing my assignment) the sun came out so we decided to go catch the shuttle which runs up and down the canyon (you can't drive it) and if we had a better break in the weather we would go for a walk. We managed to see quite a bit of the canyon, and get some good pics - but on the way back down it started to rain again so we didn't get to hike. We both loved it here though and are considering a trip at labor day.
Nothing special for dinner - just take out pizza and pasta.
Heather
