Bryce Canyon

We enjoyed one last fling this summer over Labor Day Weekend visiting Bryce Canyon. We stayed in a cabin nearby that just barely fit all of us, but it came with a pool at the campground, so the kids were happy.

We set out each day doing a bunch of hikes, then we'd cruise back to the cabin, cook dinner on the fire pit, do some swimming, and crash before the next day's adventures doing the same thing.

Here's a glimpse of our fun:

That's Natalie who can't bear to look away from her Junior Ranger workbook she was working on.

All four of the girls received their Junior Ranger badges after completing all of their age appropriate assignments, including one very fascinating ranger program - that is, for John and I. The girls were utterly bored as we learned about the Lodge's history. It was fascinating! Did you know it was designed by the same guy who designed the lodge at the Grand Canyon?

 



 

We encountered a sleeping rattlesnake underneath one of the benches along a trail:

 

As we were hiking along, we came around a bend, and saw this:

 A log filled with stacked rocks. It was really a sight to behold, including these crazy ones:

 

Of course we had to add a few of our own:

 

Our girls were real troopers and hiked up a storm without too much complaint.

Actually, they only complained when it was their turn to wear the backpacks filled with our water.

 

Megan got a ride - and seriously, it was only one time for a teeny part of the trail, only because she asked John in that ever so cute 4-year-old voice of hers.

 

 

Natalie loved taking our camera and had me pose a gazillion different times along each trail.

This was one of the better shots:

 

Natalie wasn't the only one who liked to play with the camera.

Alicia took a ton of selfies. It was funny to look through all of them as I picked out the photos for this blog post.

 

 

Bryce is one of our favorite canyons, with John and I having visited it a couple of times, but we had yet to take our younger girls, so it was decided by the girls earlier in the year that's where they wanted us to take our family vacation when Disneyland got postponed to next year. 

 

 

 

 

It really was a blast. I adore family vacations.