Day 6: Bryce and zion national parks

today we woke up and ate at the buffalo sage bed and breakfast. the owner had a real sweet dog named zoe who was a rescue lab from hurricane katrina. after breakfast, we drove to bryce canyon national park and decided to take a trail called the navajo loop which connected to peekaboo loop, since both parks had free shuttles, we took the trail to the other end of the park where we took teh shuttle back to the car. the rock was all differnt colors from very red to almost pure white. there were also streaks of purpleish blue which we later figured out were from manganese. the park was beautiful. after we got settled back into the car we drove to zion national park. at zion we got a park pass and parked near the visitors center, after much debate, we decided to hike the narrrows which is a very narrow canyon. rick had told us tha tif we hiked the narrows that we would need boots and a walking stick becuase it is mostly walking through the river. we asked the ranger to driect us toward a rental shop and we took the shuttle down to town. we rented the boots and got a 5 minute safety lesson. the only problem was that we had to return the rental by 8 so we had to get a move on. we took the shuttle up to the very end of the line where the shuttles run. we hiked for a while on a trail and then went into the river for a while. we didnt have enough time to get to the waterfall at the very end but what we saw was spectacular. we got back in time to return the rentals and ate dinner at a mexican cafe which was delicious. the rock at zion had horizpntal cracks most of the time while at bryce they were vertical ones. al in all it was a very exhasting but fun day.

Will