Zion's

Zion's National Park

On our hike to a pool

 

So our final pit stop before heading up to Salt Lake was St. George, Utah where my mother resides with her husband.  We pulled in Tuesday evening and spent the night there.  The next day we enjoyed a visit to the St. George Temple and a short visit to the Visitor's Center to learn a little history of the temple.  After our time there and a change of attire, we headed to Zion's National Park, a place where Jared hadn't really 'tasted'.  As a young single adult, I had been there twice and climbed Angel's Landing both times.  What a view to see of the Three Patriarchs!  This time around, however, we didn't have time to do that hike so we decided to do the shorter hikes to and around the Emerald Pools.  It was very refreshing with the misting water dropping off the rock above us in the picture above especially on such a warm day which are typical in Southern Utah.  One thing that had stopped the hikers in their tracks was a rattlesnake off to the side of one of the trails who eventually slithered away.   Jared snapped a picture of the creature.

The Rattler