Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park

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Our second National Park in Utah was Bryce Canyon, which is gorgeous.  The canyon is punctuated with giant spires of rock (called "hoodoos") made out of white and red sandstone.  I don't know if photos even do it justice.  Besides the beauty, the best part is that it's at high elevation (7 or 8 thousand feet?) so the temperature is much cooler than it was in Moab.  We did some really nice hiking down among the hoodoos and drank a bottle of wine with our ramen.

Bryce also saw our first casualty: Anna's camera.  After loading the cooler back in the car, she forgot that her backpack was still on the ground.  They were pulling away when there was a giant bump.  Maggie's first thought was, "Oh no!  We hit a kid!" so she was almost relieved that it was just a backpack.  The nalgenes survived (they don't lie when they say you can run them over with a car); the camera did not.  We salvaged all the photos but it was not a happy moment.

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So, one camera lighter, we headed off to Zion National Park.