Now for more of what we did in Zions National Park.
The second day we decided to take it easy and visit the emerald pools, once again wonderful weather and wonderful views make an excellent combination. The lower pools were not crowded and the trail went right next to a waterfall coming from the middle pools. We got a ton of fun pictures in this area as the water fell into the small pool and splashed onto the rocks.
The upper pools were kind of fun, the largest waterfall fell from the rim of the canyon down onto where we were standing. I counted and it would take about 10 seconds to die if you fell from the top, probably shorter though.
We had to hurry at that point to catch the bus out of the park and back to our car because we were going to visit Grandma and Grandpa Clarke, we called them the night before and they were expecting us to come visit them and Uncle Mike.
Our bus got there a little bit before we did and we had to run the last few hundred yards to make it. Thank goodness we have been running 2-3 miles a day. the Driver thought he would be funny and close the door right before we got there, he opened them again, but he got a good laugh out of it.
Grandma and Grandpa are doing good, Grandpa has walking pneumonia, and Grandma has pneumonia and was in the hospital when we got there. We got a whole tour of the house and looked at all of the pots that Grandpa had collected though the years. Mike was very friendly with us and we had a good time joking around with him and talking about what he and Grandpa have been doing with the racing pigeons that they keep in the back, and their plans about the yard. They planted about 10 fruit trees in the back to add some shade and hopefully, some fruit here in a few years.
Mike and Grandpa also have two little ducks that they are raising to eat all the bugs and weeds. Those two duck were very afraid of us and tried to hide behind anything that they could. Also Mike and Grandpa offered to let us have as manny pigeons that we want to take with us, we declined because we didn't think that our apartment managers would like if we were keeping pigeons. I haven't told lindsey yet, but as soon as we get a house we are going to get pigeons so that they can poop all over everything for us.
Grandma is doing good, she is still more concerned about Grandpa than herself even though she is in the hospital. It was good to see her and to know that she is being taken care of. We are sure that she will make a full recovery and be back to her old self again real soon.
On the drive back we stopped by Kolob Canyon at the north end of the park and drove around and got some great shots of the sun on the mountains with storm clouds in the background. Those were some nice shots.
When we got back to Rockville I had a great Idea for dinner, I told Lindsey about it and she agreed completely. We were going to have a small barbecue in one of the parks that we had found the day before.
We drove to a general store and picked up corn on the cob, peppers, cheese, chicken, and marshmallows. Then drove to the park.
The park was great, we found a large stone grill and I started preparing the fire as lindsey prepared the corn. The fire turned out really well, we made a trench fire by piling stones on both sides of the logs and closed a third narrow end off and left only a small hole, the fourth side was open completely. We started the fire by rolling up a chunk of cardboard and pushing it in the hole and lighting it.
It took very quickly, and soon we were grilling stuffed peppers and corn on the cob. It was a wonderful dinner.
It got creepy quickly though, there was another family in the park, but they took off as soon as it went dark and we were all alone. I was honestly a little nervous. After grilling two marshmallows I looked across the fire and saw two points of light, followed quickly by another set. I stared at them for a second to make sure that I was seeing what I was seeing and made an executive decision that was quickly endorsed by the cochair. We booked it as calmly as we could to the car, turned it around and turned the brights on the wild animal that we had seen.
It was the fence, a sone wall that had a mural of broken tiles on it. That is what we had seen. but we still didn't want to be in that park all alone. So we went back to apartment and called it a day.
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