Friday, May 18, 2007
Click here to see Set 6 of our Road Trip 2007 photo gallery.
We checked out of the MGM Grand this morning and headed towards Utah. We decided to just go to Zion National Park and forego Bryce Canyon and Arches National Parks to save some time since we stayed the extra day in Las Vegas.
Utah’s landscape is straight out of The Hills Have Eyes…except with Mormons instead of crazy-go-nuts murderous cannibalistic inbred hicks.
We went on a few hikes throughout Zion. It’s a place you could spend week hiking around and still not see everything. Unfortunately it was the dryer season so the waterfalls and things were not quite as impressive as they are normally during early spring after the snow in the mountains melts.
Joel’s inability to interpret the words on warning signs came to the forefront again when he decided to venture out on another ledge above the bottom of the waterfalls. In Joel’s defense, it probably wasn’t as dangerously life threatening as the sign implied, due to the decreased volume of water on the river. Either way, it was met with the disapproval of the couple sitting on the rocks at the back of the pool of water. We asked if they would be so kind as to take a picture of our group. She obliged, but only if we would repeat after her, “boys are silly.” I (Garrison) was like, “I’m not gonna say that, cause I already did my stupid thing yesterday at the Grand Canyon. You’ll need to talk to him about that,” pointing at Joel.
It was our luck though that we got to see several of Hank’s cousins, Brigham and Young, at the park.
Daniel was about to get this great picture of Brigham standing in a field when this dumb-faced kid decided he’d go talk to the deer in it’s face. He ran whole-heartedly towards Brigham screaming “hey deer hey deer hey deer!” Brigham snapped his head up in shock, and was like, “oh crap,” then bolted like Bambi when his mom got shot. After the kid fell and skinned his knee or something, he went away and Brigham was kind enough to strike a couple of poses for Daniel to get some good pictures.
Dan Dan the wonderful driving man was keister-fanny anal about leaving the windows open on the bus. That was apparently his arch nemesis. Worst arch nemesis ever…
