Well... Utah is surprisingly nice, but before that... When we left Denver, we headed to Utah. We wanted to go to Arches National Park. after being on the road for 2 or 3 hours after denver, we stopped to get gas. when we got out of the RV, the straps that hold the car on the trailer were pretty much hanging off of the wheels. the roads were so steep and rough, that it forced the straps off. pretty crazy. my car very well could have been laying on the side of the road. but all is well, that ends well. after we saw that, we decided that we should drive the car behind the RV. so, hanlon and I drove through CO and Utah in the car too. we stopped in Vail. We really liked it. we were only there for 45 mins and pretty much decided that we would definitely be back at some point. after leaving, we headed into Utah. none of us expected Utah to be a very fun place. There are some awesome parks and places here. Arches was amazing. we hiked a ton of trails and saw some pretty amazing things. we climbed some fun rocks and of course, had a ton of fun there. they had red sand inbetween this one sectino of 300 ft. high rocks. it was just liek siesta key sand. then we left for a town called richfield. we decided, that for the price of driving the rv to salt lake city, that we could easily drive the car, arrive there hours sooner, and stay in a hotel! we got a great deal on a hotel in the city... they had temperpedic beds! going from my cardboard like mattress above the drivers seat to a very comfy bed was very nice. we saw a ton in salt lake city... we went to temple square, and learned a ton about the mormon religion (read julia's blog for more about that... lol). we werent allowed into the temple because we werent mormon, but we still got to tour a lot of the buildings, and learn a lot about them. it was a little boring! we went out, ate at a great mexican joint called cafe rio - it was awesome! such great food. we saw olympic park, and U of U as well. one night i drove chris and julia to the gateway so they could have a date night. hanlon and i thought that we would go out and have a night on the town... haha! we found a place online that said that the "port'o'call" club was the hottest place in salt lake city to meet young people. we drove by to scout it out... it was about the complete opposite of the best... there were old people in the club! so we decided to head up toward campus and see if we could go out with some college kids. nope... nothing there either. so we gave up. we went by the great salt lake the next day to check it out. nothing good about it at all. the sand was gross and the water was weird. there were dead seagulls all over their "beach". maybe we are just spoiled in FL, but man... not good. it was nice that their were mountains all around the lake. it was pretty from far away. we left salt lake and headed south to zion national park! we stayed in a nice rv park... hot tub and all! Zion natl park is amazing! it is by far the most beautiful area i have seen so far. massive rocks and mountains surround amazing grass filled valleys. streams, brooks, and rivers flow every where. god really gave utah something special there. we hiked several trails again - weeping rock, the narrows, and the emerald pools. they were all awesome. we hiked up a mountain for the emerald pools. there were 3 different bodies of water that we saw. the highest was the coolest, it was almost a 2 mile hike. the water was clear, and the bottom was green (emerald) and cold! we climbed rocks around it and convinced hanlon to jump in from a rock. didnt take too much convincing, he likes to be crazy. i dont think he was expecting it to be so cold... the video is pretty funny. we met rulan gardner's cousin (a famous gold medalist wrestler... Lee (sp). he was really cool. he told us so many things to see around california and wyoming. that pretty much catches us up. tomorrow we are going to bryce canyon... i am very jealous of anyone who will be in savannah for st patty's day! but we will be having fun in the middle of nowhere, hopefully it will be just as amazing as zion. we all were pleasantly shocked by utah. goodnight! and thank you all who read our blogs and check our site... we really appreciate it.

My Dad was hunting there once and had to shoot a bear on a narrow mountain trail. He hated to do that but it was him or the bear. I would love to see the beautiful pictures of Utah, whenever I thought about Utah before, I always thought about that poor bear.

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