Since we were so close to Bryce Canyon when we went down to Panguitch we decided to just spend the weekend down there. The kids have never been here so we thought it would be a good time to see it. When we got there the first night it was about five-thirty after we checked in to our hotel. We decided to see if we could find a little hike to do before it got dark. So we did one that was along the rim of the canyon. It ended up being a three mile walk. The kids did so good. They stopped and looked out at every spot. It was pretty cool down off the edge. They all wanted to go hike down in there but we knew we wouldn't have time before it got dark.
The views were really cool.
The boys were out in front for most of the walk. They said they needed to bet the girls.
Some how Drake got out of the car without his jacket so he started getting cold about half way through our walk. Jay only had a long sleeve shirt on so he couldn't wrap him in his jacket.
I had a sweater on so he climbed in with me on the way back. At the end was a little hill we had to climb back up. Jay said he would carry him up it for me but when we got there and Jay tried to get him from me he wouldn't get out of my sweater. He said it was freezing.
When we got back to our room the kids still wanted to go swimming so we headed to the pool. The kids swam for two hours. When we got back to our room the three little kids got in a bath while Tyler waited for the shower. He fell asleep waiting. When the other kids got out and dress they were all asleep so fast and they all slept in good the next morning. They had a busy day with getting up early to go wrestle, wrestling , hiking and swimming.
The next morning we head out to do some more exploring. This time the kids wanted to go down in and walk around all over this time. Tyler and Mason chose to do a five mile hike this time. They loved all the cool little arches they could walk under.
They thought this was a really cool way to get to the bottom. You had to walk from one side to the other to get to the bottom.
These little caves were pretty cool too.
The boys had to explore every little spot they could find.
There was a little rock bridge back there that we were looking at back in this little canyon.
While we were walking along we came up this little hill and found this little squirrel just sitting there.
Drake was scared of him and was starting to cry. It was pretty funny.
The boys thought it was a great time to do some target practice. They were throwing rocks and him and missing him by a mile. Jay and I were laughing so hard. The squirrel had to be laughing as hard as us because he just kept on coming up and running around them. It was pretty funny. They never even came close to hitting him.
There was one spot in the bottom of the canyon where people had stacked rocks on top of other rocks. It was weird, but Drake liked knocking them down.
My family stopping for a short break. The weather was pretty perfect.
This was about the last time we were all together on the hike. Tyler and Mason kid of just took off on their own. We would see them every now and again ahead of us on the trail and were just hoping there were taking the right turns.
It was really pretty there.
Elly and Drake did so good on our hike. Elly walked the whole thing. Towards the end she was saying her legs hurt but she kept walking.
Drake would climb like this when we started to go up any hill even if it wasn't the steep. It was pretty funny. He didn't like going down the hills because he would slip and fall, so we wanted carried most of the time when we went down.
When we got back to the start, we made a big loop, we found the boys there waiting for us. That was a big relief. We told them they couldn't just take off like that and they needed to stay with in our sight. They said Tyler needed to use the bathroom really bad so that was why they were hurrying.
We they drove down to the end of the south end of the park just stopping and looking at each of the turn offs. Elly and Drake both fell asleep as soon as we got in the car. It took us about an hour of driving down and back and looking at all the look outs.
The kids wanted to do one more hike which we had talked about doing that morning. Since it was a short one and on our way home we stopped and woke Elly and Drake to do one more hike. This one was called Mossy cave. The kids likes throwing rocks off the bridge into the water.
The cave still had ice in it. It was a really small cave and a really short hike. There was suppose to be a waterfall to see while we were up there but there wasn't any water coming off it yet.
Drake didn't want any help on this little hike and so he slipped and fell when we were headed back to the car. He still only wanted help getting back up and then he was off again.
We had so much fun, but needed at least one more day. We went home through Boulder and Escalante and didn't have time to see everything we wanted to see there. The kids slept most of the time we were in the car so that made it pretty nice. The kids and I had so much fun with Jay. He seemed so relaxed this weekend. It was a fun spur of the moment weekend with our kids and a good memory for the kids.
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