Our beloved family Clark, Swathi, Soren, Meera and Mani flew in last night and stayed in our home. This morning we all woke up and drove to Southern Utah for our family vacation. Today was our Zion’s day!
Zion’s canyon is very convenient to get to from Orem Utah. Orem is exit 269 and the ext for Arches is exit 27, so it is literally just 242 miles south (3 hours). Once you exit the freeway, you take route 9 East towards LaVerkin for about 40 minutes, and then you are right at Zion’s/Springdale.
Zion’s has been very rainy for us recently. We came as a family two months ago and it was completely downpouring. On that trip, I bought a bunch of umbrellas and ponchos so that we could still do some hiking. I felt very blessed to remember to bring them all on this trip as well, because as it turned out, we really needed them! It rained on and off throughout the entire day.
The first hike we did was our go-to at Zion’s, the Riverwalk trail. It never dissapoints, even in the rain!
Here is a flashback to two months ago when she did the exact same thing 🙂
After hiking we drove to our Airbnb in Washington (40 minutes away) and we all had pasta which Swathi made and went to bed.
Well, we didn’t actually go to bed. Lydia, Mary, Ammon and Soren, were having a blast in their room (with two bunkbeds next to each other) and Lily and I stayed up and watched Game of Thrones.