Day 2-Tuesday

We're in Flagstaff, AZ! Yesterday (Tuesday) we drove from Ogden, UT to Flagstaff...and that was a long, but very good drive. We stopped in Salt Lake City on the way down and took a look at Temple Square, where a bunch of mormon buildings are. Then we headed south and south and south, and we decided to visit Bryce Canyon, because it was only about a 40 mile detour. It was totally worth it, especially because there was this little canyon about 10 miles west of it (and it wasn't in the state park yet) called Red Canyon, that was spectacular! All the sudden we were driving along and we went around a corner and saw these beautiful deep orange-red rock cliffs. I posted some pictures below. Our drive was characterized by beautiful, deep blue skies. We spent most of the day at pretty high elevation (around 7000 feet).

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Here is the mormon temple, and the tabernacle is behind it, I think. There are no tours of the temple.

Here's cool driver Tim. He drove most of the way yesterday! Thanks Tim!

Beautiful southern Utah sky

There are valleys and on the mountains are these shrubby evergreen trees. They look kind of like bushes, but they are trees...

Here we are in Red Canyon! It was really beautiful!

And here is a picture of Bryce Canyon. The red rock was really cool!

Here we are at Bryce Canyon

Tim the rock climber (and a cool view point through the rock!)

Interesting rock formations along the highway (maybe in Arizona, but I don't remember)

This is for sure in Arizona. The sun was shining on the rock and it was really beautiful!