Another Day at Bryce Canyon National Park

Another cold night here and we forgot to turn our water pump off last night. For some unexplained reason the pump started to run overnight and drained our battery, so I wake up at 6am to turn off the pump and realize we have no battery to power the heater fan. I figure I'm up and dressed (I had gone outside the trailer to try to figure out what was making the odd noise) so I might as well go see the sunrise over the canyon. I start to walk up to the rim of the canyon with my winter coat, hat and gloves, but it is just too cold -- I head back to the trailer and climb under the nice, warm covers til 8am (when we're allowed to turn on the generator and our heater will again work).

We start the day by packing up our 5th wheel so we can move it to a different site in the campground. We could only reserve this site for two nights and now have to find a vacant site for our third night. There are several vacant sites so we pick the one we think will be easiest to pull into, and set up in our new site.

We run some errands and then take the scenic drive to the other end of Bryce NP. Our first stop is Fairyland Canyon:

Soon after leaving the Fairyland Canyon we see a group of antelope grazing beside the road.

Some of the stops are so-so, but some of the stops have incredible views of the canyon. Some of our favorite stops:

Rainbow Point -- the southern most stop on the drive. The view is great, but the snow on the trail is even better. Joe has a great time throwing snowballs at his Dad.

Natural Bridge:

Bryce Point:

Upper Inspiration Point:

We cook dinner (we???)....I cook dinner. WE eat dinner and then spend the rest of the evening relaxing, doing schoolwork and trying to get caught up on my blog.