ZION

April 15, 2011 Today is my brother's 63rd birthday. Happy birthday, C.L.!!! We're in the best RV park this trip--it's small, with very friendly staff who are professional singers. Heated pool and spa. I've been sewing in the clubhouse. We are sorry to leave today and miss Nickel's country western show tonight. Yesterday was Zion National Park. We took the shuttle tour in the park, and walked a 2 mile trail to the end of a canyon. The park is as beautiful as Rainier, but in a different way with all the orange, rust and coral peaks, interspersed with white and black. It's breathtaking. We stopped in St. George on the way here, and I bought some of Kaffe Fassett's shot cottons in the colors we saw around us. I will use them in the class I'm taking with Jean Wells in Sisters at the end of the trip. Before this we spent a night on Lake Mead after driving up to Hoover Dam. I bought a postcard of the dam to show grandson Julian what his great-great grandfather Mead made. We spent 4 nights in Parker,AZ with C.L., and bought an RV resort membership. The last 2 nights and the next 2 will be $13 per night instead of the $30 to 40 we would normally pay. So far we have been the smallest "rig" in every park. Tonight and tomorrow we will be in Fillmore, UT.