Zion National Park
So we woke this morning - hopeful that we would get some sunshine to be able to do a bit of hiking. Little did we know that overnight the rain had turned to snow! We decided that we would drive up through the canyon to at least take some pictures. Boy were we glad we did. The sun came out in amazing bursts to show waterfalls where the snow was melting and amazing cloud formations around the cliffs. Fantastic! We spent about 4 hours driving, stopping, taking pictures, driving, stopping etc. We needed to be in Vegas at 5pm to meet some friends for dinner (he starts work at 4:30am so they needed to be home early) so headed out. We decided we will definitly get back to Zion - maybe for the labor day weekend as we really want to do some of the hikes (yup - even Andi wants to hike here!).
Vegas
Arrived in Vegas at the Venetian to find that our room was not ready - after several rounds with an very vacuous hotel clerk we managed to get him to get the manager who amazingly found us a room straight away. The funny thing about this is that we kept saying we couldn't believe they wouldn't have our room ready at 5pm - but come to find out the time is different in Vegas than in Utah and it was only 4pm - D'oh! In any case our friends were there early and all was well with the world. We had a really nice dinner in the Venetian and hung out with them for a while after. They took off and we headed down the strip. It was a lovely night, although the streets were crowded. We made a few stops to see the water show and glass garden at Belagio (probably my favourite thing in Vegas) and arrived back at the Venetian happy to have a lovely big suite (all the rooms at the Venetian are suites) to relax in before heading off to sleep (which was about 30 seconds for me and some hours for Andi).
Cya tomorow :)
Heather
