Much awaited trip to Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks!
Since I heard about Angels Landing hike, I wanted to try this hike. Finally able to make a trip to Zion National park during Kids Spring Break. We flew to Las Vegas, Stayed there for night in Stratosphere.
Need to go back to Feb when we are planning for this trip, we got a reservation for stratosphere for the night before going to UTAH. Valentine’s day is around that time and SV asked me what I like for my valentine’s day, I told him that I don’t want any material gift but will have a memory to Jump off the stratosphere as a gift and he made sure that it is possible.
Yes, I did Jumped off of Stratosphere, 830 feet jump from top …frightened, but I did it when all my boys are watching me jumping from base 🙂 Awesome experience.
Kids enjoyed las vegas as well, never know that they will enjoy being in crowd and going around shopping.
Day 2 started with my adventure on stratosphere, we drove to UTAH, on the way we stopped at multiple places to enjoy the road trip. Sand Hallow beach is one of the stops, beautiful views, sand and water.. ..after spending some time we headed to our stay in LaVerkin, we rented a beautiful house, good choice and spent rest of our stay in that house. Gathered all the information needed for next couple of days to hike.
Day 3, woke up early, we cooked breakfast, packed lunch and headed to Zion national park, beautiful parks, both eyes are not enough to see this beauty, we all had a blast, Hiked Angels Landing, Couldn’t go to the peak top, but wow.. It’s a must see once in a life time. Proud of my boys that they are enjoying nature and into hiking. Pictures doesn’t do justice at all, you need to see this beauty to appreciate it.
Day 4, Again Zion 🙂 we did not have enough of it yesterday and visited Bryce Canyon, this is another beautiful place, we couldn’t do much here as many trails are closed with snow. At the end of day we were very tired, but we are all glad we are tired and enjoyed the nature to core.
Day 5, We planned to start back and stopped at Sand hollow beach for ATV tour, this is a great experience, we had awesome fun, but ended up paying a lot as we broke one of the ATV 🙁
After all the adventures, headed back to vegas spent few hours on the strip with Bellajio fountain and shopping at Caesar’s forum mall. And it’s time to head back to reality and back to STL.
It was an awesome trip, but it ended up as an expensive trip so far with ATV band 🙂
Money can’t buy Happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of Memories – Ronald Reagan,
Memories are Forever, money is temporary – Vijaya Yalamanchili.