Thread: Bryce Canyon

Yeah, so I totally spaced it. Friday morning I woke up and went to get in my car and drive to the theater to get some PoTC II midnight showing tickets for my friends, and my dad's standing in the driveway loading the van...
So, surprise vacation for me. The first two days kind of sucked...I got dragged to a family reunion (My dad's side of the family never ceases to creep me out. Redneck just doesn't even come close to describing it.). I avoided most of it...stayed at the hotel, or hiked over the hill and took a nap by the waterfall (Which was totally awesome...the way it's positioned in a tiny slot canyon makes it impossible to see until you're right on top of it, so it's a great hiding spot from creepy family AND it's freakin' beautiful). Anyway, other than that, I found out I'm totally backwards. Apparently something about me and ADD reverses caffeine's effects on me. I hadn't ever noticed before, 'cuz I don't drink TOO much caffeine, but I tried coffee my first time the other day (Yeah, yeah, I'm a deprived child.), and it put me to sleep after lowering my pulse 10 or so beats per minute. LIke freakin' sedatives. Never drinking that stuff again.

Well...
Sunday (Today...er...yesterday. It's 1:45 in the morning here), we went to Bryce Canyon. That was the way awesome part of the trip. For those who haven't heard of it:


Yeah. And that's not the coolest part of the park.
Anyway, we did a few hikes (LOTS of switchbacks), and took a bunch of pictures. I'll get around to posting them once I've recovered. Lots of red sandstone, tons of cool arches, huge valleys, and funky names. (Pirate Point and Yovimpa, definitely topping the charts). And I was totally shocked by the number of foreign visitors: Visitors from other countries outnumbered Americans three to one AT LEAST. I saw umpteen million Japanese families (And I have to say, a lot of them had some VERY cute daughters...), a Swedish family that spoke a little english, four or five German groups, one of which was a gay couple that kept trying to talk to my mom in fractured English about how she liked her digital camera, a couple of Russian guys, a few families from India, some guys from Spain and an elderly couple from England. There were more, too, but I didn't stop to talk to everybody...
The other thing is that the chipmunks there are completely tame. Kind of a bad thing, because the park doesn't get visitors year round, so a lot of them die in winter because they rely too much on people to feed them, but it was still really cool. I sat down on a bench at one of the overviews and a chipmunk ran up my leg and sat on my knee. It just sat there for a bit, let me pet it, then stole the rest of my fruit loops and ran away. Freakin' adorable thief, though.