vacation Sun (6/9) & Mon (6/10)

I forgot to post a few pictures from our evening at The Luxor, so here you go:

 

Sunday (6/9) - we're still somewhat on SC time, since we got up voluntarily at 6:30 AM on Sunday.  When we first got to our room on Friday I said to Michael 'we have to take a whirl in the tub.  Our bathroom sported a whirlpool tub big enough for 2.  Well, we were so busy Friday and Saturday that we didn't get to it, but Sunday morning I got up while Michael was still sleeping and started the water (It was so huge it took FOREVER to fill up).  WE both got in, fired up the jets and relaxed and talked about everything we had done for the past 2 days and also talked a bit about what we were going to do on Sunday.  It was LOVELY and after an hour or 2, we finally got out.  We started out for St George  Utah, stopping along the way for breakfast at IHOP.  We got in around NOON.  We dropped our stuff off in the room and headed for Kolob canyon.  We went in to buy our tickets and the woman behind the desk explained that as a senior (62 or over) Michael could buy a $10 pass good for access to ANY national park in the country for free....talk about a deal!  The scenery was breathtaking as we drove along the 5 mile scenic ride through northern Zion National Park....stopping at all of the overlooks to take pictures.   

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Monday 6/10 - we had breakfast at the hotel, then headed to the south part of ZION Canyon.  There are shuttle buses to various points in the canyon, so we stopped first at the Emerald Pools Hike.  We hiked up to see the pools, took some pictures and came back down to hop on the bus again for Weeping Rock.  The levels of water seem to be down everywhere here in the west, and Michael thought it might just be 'sniveling rock' rather than weeping...but by the time we got there...weeping it was J.  After both hikes, we stopped at a cafe on the way down and had these incredible soft serve cones (yep, that was lunch) before heading back down the mountain to our car.  By now we have taken over 200 pictures, as well as some involuntary movies. 

Here’s the story on the ‘involuntary movies’.  When we are coming back down the canyon, Michael is taking pictures, but he keeps telling me that the camera screen always shows some new thing to him…but it is so tiny he can’t read it.  He keeps taking pictures and complaining about it…and I finally look at the camera…..yep…he’s been taking movies instead of pictures….I say “hello Deb!!!” because when we first got the camera and I didn’t really know how to use it…I would finish a quilt and take a picture (while he was out at some rehearsal or other) and then I would ask him to download the picture onto the computer.  The next morning he would say to me ‘yep, you took another movie of your quilt’ because I kept ending up with it on the movie setting instead of the picture setting!!!  By the time we got home, it was time to get cleaned up and head out to dinner.  This time it was Red Lobster (after eating at Olive Garden yesterday!!) .....yes...we have both an Olive Garden AND a Red Lobster within probably 10 miles of our house...and I don't think we've been to either in at least a year.