Vegas and Zion

We spent a week in Vegas and Zion National Park, it was HOT. We live in a desert now, but a high elevation desert. I will not be moving to a desert any time soon, it was way to hot. And neither of us really liked Vegas, it was ok, but we will not be frequenting.

The strip

 

   

The bellagio fountain, and because we went around the 4th of July they played "proud to be an American"

We checked out the Hoover Dam, we took the long tour and it was well worth it. The ticket purchasing process is kind of silly.

we got there an hour before they opened and waited in line and then still got into the second tour.

 

Then we checked out the Las Vegas sign. There was a line for that too!!! awe skipped the line and didn't care there were other people in our picture, I guess we don't like lines.

 

We checked out Cirque, it was good!

 

Then we checked out Zion

We found the hidden petroglyphs, it was really neat!

We hiked 5 miles one way in water in the narrows

To see this, big springs... 5 miles one way for this.

I would suggest getting the water shoes you can rent... we wore our keens, and kind of regret it.

This was the deepest part.

Then we went on a backpack trip.

The views were amazing. 

This is our campsite on the trail, for all of the campsites being booked... we saw 1 other couple on the trail... it kind of made us upset that so many people didn't keep their reservations,  it was super nice that we had the entire place to ourselves!

We walked right past Angels landing but chose not to do it because it was packed and we just came down from a much higher elevation and had seen the view...

 

Then we hiked down Walter's wiggles, there was no way in hell we were hiking back up those.

 

The next day we saw the emerald pools and some of the other short hikes

Then back to Vegas

Where we got to see Sibin!

Then we had to head backs home.