Zion National Park

We're here in St. George for Thanksgiving this week. Today we visited Zion National Park. We had a great time looking at the animals (mostly mule deer, but also big horn sheep, and lots of birds), the plants (it's amazing that those pine trees can grow of out almost nothing), and the magnificent rock formations in the canyon.

We stopped for lunch at the Red Rock Grill in the lodge inside the park. The Zion burger's were very good and their achiote chicken soup was amazing. Misty asked the waitress if there was a chance we could get the recipe for it. The waitress returned later with a printout of the recipe for 5 gallons! Sweet! We'll try out skills at recipe reduction and see if we can make a smaller batch at home.

After lunch, we took the road towards the the Mt. Carmel Junction through the tunnel built in the 1920's. On the way we came across the bridge that my great grandfather helped build.