Well the government really put the kibosh on that one. We headed to the San Rafael Swell near Green River, Utah instead. *Note: Utah opened it's national parks that Friday, but it was a little too late at that point.
We stayed at Robbers Roost Motel, and ate at the dinky restaurants in Green River. We bought a watermelon from a stand near a gas station. It so happens that Green River is known for their watermelons. It was really good! We used Ryan's pocket knife to cut off the top and ate from the melon like a bowl, finishing it by Sunday. We had dry bison burgers at the "Tamarisk" restaurant a few blocks from our motel.
The highlight of the trip was canyoneering in Little Wild Horse Canyon.
We had to take off our socks and shoes at a few places and wade through some pools of muddy water. It was a long canyon and actually looped through a second one. I really enjoyed it. It was challenging, but it was also fun so that you forgot you were working hard.
We stopped at Goblin Valley State Park and walked around the "Goblins" for a while. This was about a week before the now infamous video of those guys pushing over a rock formation came out. I will say, some of those rocks look like they are about to fall, but it also looked like those guys had to put a lot of effort into pushing that one over. Anyway...
We hiked "Crack Canyon" on Sunday and drove back to Salt Lake Sunday. It was a really long drive back because we took a detour though now-open Capital Reef National Park. By the time we got there we were parked-out and just bought our magnet at the gift shop and headed on.
We stopped in Bicknell to attempt and sweet-talk a few piece of pie out of a diner/motel that is closed on Sundays, but we couldn't find any employees.
By the time we got to the city we were starving as it was 8pm. We stopped in Provo, but everything but Applebees-type joints were closed. We ended up at the Belgian Waffle and Omelette Inn - the 24 breakfast joint right by our apartment. It was really good and hit the spot.
The pictures of Ryan haven't been uploaded to the computer yet, but here are a few of me:
uh oh...
Almost knee deep in cold muddy water
Goblin Valley
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