Lovin' Fall

Oops! here's a few more pics I wanted to remember from Zion -don't know how to move them. The kids, and Dave loved climbing and sliding down this rock on the Watchman trail.

Below is the really c-c-c-cold water they had fun in.

Hope you had a happy Halloween. We had a lovely time. Let me introduce you to my Big Bad Wolf Ali, Wild Thing Spencer, and BatSam.

The kids were out of school for Nevada Day (Friday, Oct 29) and staff development days (Monday and Tuesday, Nov 1st & 2nd) so we headed to Zion. We had awesome accomodations just outside of Zion at the Cable Mountain Lodge. My little brother Nate does a super job managing it. We bought our food and prepared it in the kitchen in our room which was so nice. We also saw a fun movie at the theater there, and we went swimming in the pool Monday morning. I was nervous because it was freezing (according to us Nevadans), 45 degrees, but the hot tub was so nice and the pool was surprisingly warm as well, 82 degrees. This is the Court of the Partiarchs.
Enjoying frisbee at the Lodge in Zion.
Sam was a bit frustrated that he couldn't always catch the frisbee so he caught a lizard instead.

There were so many animals around. There were about 10 of these big horn sheep on this mountain.

Here a deer is watching Spencer and Sam.

Here Spencer and Sam are watching a deer.

We love Zion especially in the Fall. The weather was just right and there weren't gobs of people, although plenty of Nevadans.;o)

I think we hiked 6 different trails, we tried to take in as much of the awesomeness around us, got in some good laughs, and just loved hanging out with us.

Yippee! Fall has arrived.