Spring break 2016

Spring break 2016 . This was a camping trip in our little pop up tent . We spent part of it in Bryce Canyon and part of it in Capitol reef, we hiked a ton and found some really awesome hikes and really beautiful places. These were from the Queens Garden Trail in Bryce Canyon. I really do love Bryce canyon, and this was one of the few times we were able to really get right down in it and hike right through the middle of all those hoodoos. There were tunnels that the kids really liked to hike through, and the trail was just so much fun! I really just think it is a special, magical place. There's really nowhere else like it!

This was also one of the trips where we had a hard time finding a place to camp because nothing was open yet. We ended up getting lucky and finding a campground that was quite a ways off the beaten path, but that we could go into, there just wasn't a camp host or water or things like that, but there were bathrooms so that was a plus. It was really quiet, really chill, and we had the entire campground to ourselves which NEVER happens and is usually really awesome except for the one time in the middle of the night that I woke up and had to pee so I was going to go over to the bathrooms. Except when I opened the door to our little camper I watched a mountain lion walk right across our camp spot, probably no more than 20 ft from our little camper. I didn't feel like being mountain lion bait that night so I just shut the door and laid back down. I suddenly didn't have to pee that bad anymore!😉 I woke trav up and was like hey there's a mountain lion out there and he was like what!? No there's not. It was probably just a deer. I was so mad at him because I was like don't you think I know the difference between a flipping giant cat and a deer!? He still totally didn't believe me until the next morning when we went out and found its tracks. Definitely mountain lion. Which I would have rubbed in his face a lot more that I was right except I didn't really feel all that triumphant because I didn't really want there to be a mountain lion hanging out around our camp! Needless to say we didn't stay very much longer at that Campground😉










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