October 22, 2010

From the Zion Canyon Campground and RV Park; N37°11.582’ W112°69.475’

We had a lot of rain during the night. The weather made us want to sleep in. I got up at about 8 AM, MST and fixed coffee. Glenna and Gerri slept in. I noticed that the rain water had collected on the awning, so I tried to run it in. No go, the water was too heavy. I had to go out and push it off with a broom. Of course that made a mess near the door.

Bill and Elaine had gone to the grocery store and into Hurricane during the morning. After lunch we went geocaching. As we pulled up to the closest one it started raining heavily again. We went all over looking for the cache. I guess the rain effects the reception. Before finding the cache we were joined by a cacher from Wyoming. We finally zeroed in on it. The cache was named Scorpion. It was a plastic scorpion hidden under a piece of wood. What wasn’t visible at first was the length of monofilament connecting it with the wood. If you moved the wood very far the scorpion “jumped,” even knowing it wasn’t real didn’t stop me from jumping. We did a total of ten caches before going back to the park to get ready for dinner.

We grilled chicken for dinner and it started to rain just as the grill got warm. I put out the awning and we moved the picnic table under it. With the chicken we had salad, cauliflower and sweet potatoes.

I said the weather was good for sleeping in, well it was also good for going to bed early and which we did.