The Kibbies: Zion National Park

We spent a long weekend. with our good friends the Milam's, in Zion National Park. We camped in Springdale and shuttled our way to the park everyday. We hiked in beautiful landscapes, sang songs on the bus and roasted marshmallows. We attempted to roast my homemade marshmallows, but we did not have success. They sort of melted of the stick. I did buy some sugar free marshmallows online that roasted quite nicely. Between the two families there were 12 children and 4 adults. We got a lot of comments and looks. One guy thought they were all mine. Phew! Can you imagine having that many so close together? I have a deep respect for my mother in law and the Dugger family.

The Milam's used to be our some what neighbors here in Utah. We got to know them through our homeschool group and ended up spending a lot of time with them. While I was going through my 2 years of struggle (hard pregnancy and care giving for Melissa while she had cancer) Sonya Milam really took care of me and the kids. She would show up at my house with her big van, come in my house and say "who wants to go to my house?!" Of course all the kids took off running and were in the car before I could say "would you like to go?". All of our kids get a long like a dream and have so much fun together. They eventually made their way to Colorado. It was so nice to be with them last week. We had a grand time.

This is the second hike we did called Angles Landing. It was very steep, but so amazing. Aaron took Aiden to the very top, while I stayed behind with the others at the first stop. To get to the very top, you had to go through a series of chain led narrow paths with steep drop offs. Aiden was very excited that he got to go.

Aaron hiking with Eva to Angles Landing

This picture is a little bit of an optical illusion. I'm standing at the top of this trail and taking a picture looking down. You can't see the whole trail. Do you get an idea of how steep this was?

Looking out from the top

Here is Aiden along the Narrows trail. We did not do the entire Narrows. It's a hike that requires a permit because of the difficulty. We just hiked the mile to the beginning.