Saturday
We already told you all about our adventure finding Costco. That was pretty much it for Saturday.
Sunday
Sunday we found a church close to the hotel to go to. When we got there, we were looking at the program, and it had upcoming birthdays on there. One of the names on there for that was Candace Togisala. Lisa has an aunt and uncle that are Togisalas. That's not a very common name, so we wondered if there was any relation. We looked around a bunch during sacrament meeting for any potential candidates. Well when Sunday School came, they introduced the teacher as Sister Togisala. We both looked at each other. So, Lisa talked to her before Relief Society, and it turns out she is married to the brother of Lisa's uncle Togisala. So, Lisa's dad's sister's husband's brother's wife taught Sunday School where we were. :) That was pretty cool to find a connection there.
Monday
Monday we headed down to Zion National Park to hike Observation Point. It was a pretty long hike, but at the end there is a great view.
Tuesday
Tuesday we went to Bryce Canyon. There was a bunch of snow there, so we couldn't do a whole lot of hiking, but there were still some great views there as well.
On the way back home from Bryce Canyon we decided to do some exploring in Red Canyon (which you drive through to get to Bryce Canyon). There were some really cool rock formations there, including The Camel:
Wednesday
Wednesday, we headed way down south to the Valley of Fire in Nevada. We went a different way than Lisa has gone before, so we were hoping to find it okay. Well, we were driving on this road for a while that seemed to be just taking us out to nowhere. We weren't sure if we were on the right road, and we didn't want to drive forever into the unknown. We decided that maybe we should just play it safe and turn around and go the way Lisa knew. It would take a long time, but at least we would get there. Well, we got to about here when we decided to turn around:
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Lisa was just about to flip the car around when she asked me if I saw that thing up the road on the right (It's hard to see in this image, but there was something up there). I saw it and neither of us knew what it was. We decided to go up a little further to investigate. It turned out to be the sign for entering the Lake Mead National Recreational Area. That was on the path of where we needed to be, so we decided to keep going. Sure enough, a little while later, we saw a sign to turn into the Valle of Fire. We made it! We figured it probably would have cost us around 2 hours to have turned around and gone the other way. We were very grateful we made it without having to turn around. At the park we got to see cool rock formations like Elephant Rock
We also got to see lots of petroglyphs
And there were even these cool color contrasts
It was supposed to rain while we were down there, but it did not. It was overcast all day, but no rain. Of course, this, the overcast day, was the only day we wore sunscreen.
Thursday
Thursday we woke up to tons of snow.
We figured it was about 9 inches. We couldn't find the snow brush thing, so I got to clean it all off with a frisbee. Well, then it was back down to Zion National Park for lots of fun stuff. We first hiked the Emerald Pools and saw cool waterfalls
This was our final destination on that hike:
After that we made a quick stop at The Court of the Patriarchs
Bonus points for whoever can name them. After that we drove up Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway. I had only done that once before, so it was really cool to see everything on that drive, like The Great Arch
On the way back from that drive we took a short hike to the canyon overlook right above the Great Arch. We saw some bighorn sheep on that hike, and it had another great view at the end
Friday
Friday we headed down to St. George and went to the temple there. That was really cool. Both of us just kind of wanted to get home at that point so no pictures there. :)
And that was our most awesome honeymoon. To look at many more photos from our honeymoon, you can go here. We had lots of fun. Try not to be too jealous. :)
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