Let us all go down to Zion

This weekend we went with our neighbors to Zion National Park. Brett and I thought we were going for a warm weekend in the sun. We weren't. We stayed in Duck Creek Village in a cabin with some friends of our neighbors. It lightly snowed just about the whole time we were there. The snow must have scared the dogs because they growled and barked the whole first night and we got little, to no rest. Brett tried to combat the cold by throwing ALOT of extra wood on the fire the second night. It was so hot, we didn't get to bed until after midnight. The dogs didn't bark, though.

Then we went to the park, because it was so cold at the cabin, we assumed it would be cold at the park. So we got bundled up in our jeans and sweatshirts. It seemed to be cold at the park, UNTIL we started hiking. Our friend decided we should hike Angel's Landing, saying it wasn't too hard of a hike, even though the info for the hike said it was "strenuous" and there was a great danger of falling and dieing. We were cool with that, so we started on it. About 20 minutes into it, our neighbor's friend gave up. I thought maybe that was a bad sign since she had done the hike once before and just didn't want to do it again, but we continued on. By that time, the incline was so steep, that we no longer needed our sweatshirts, or our pants for that matter. It was so stinking hot! As we got to what we thought was the top, we looked up, and realized we had to hang onto a chain that was anchored to the side of a cliff as a helping hand for all the fools that chose to climb it. I personally was a little worried/terrified, since the mountain we were climbing on was only about 10 feet wide at it's widest. We could only climb it single file and when people were coming down the mountain, we had to find a place to stop and get out of their way, because there wasn't enough room for 2 people side by side on it. After about 2 hours of climbing we reached the top. It was beautiful and totally worth the death defying climb. As we were coming back down Brett and I stopped to let some people come up, one of those people was a woman who just happened to be 7 months pregnant! Not the smartest idea if you ask me, but I was happy I hadn't given up, if she can do it, anyone can.