Our weekend trip to Bryce Canyon

We were going to go to Bryce Canyon (in southern Utah) for President's Day weekend, because they had a lot of fun free activities there, but all the kids had the flu! So we rescheduled for this weekend, which was great because the weather was gorgeous and we still had more than enough activities to do. There was still a lot of snow on the ground, but the temp was probably in the 60's. The pictures never do justice to the beauty of it!

Todd and the boys went on a ranger/naturalist led snowshoe hike. I stayed with the girls (I got to go on the last snowshoe hike). We shared a brownie sundae and read children's books in the gift shop. The boys all came back with sunburned faces!

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Katherine jumping on the hotel bed:

Abbie calling for room service:

Cute pic of the girls looking at each other:

Abbie with her cute scrunched up nose smile, and Katherine holding her hand (which Abbie doesn't like, but Katherine wants to be sweet.)

At Bryce Canyon they have a "light pollution" rule so star gazing is great there. They had an astronomy class and afterward everyone got to look into their big telescope at the moon. Katherine is dancing during the astronomy class:

We ate lots of good food at the hotel restaurant (and spent lots of money! Next time, we'll pack a cooler of food):

The boys enjoying the view:

Looks like Alex fell off:

This past week Abbie has become a blankie-thumb-sucking girl:

We had fun throwing snowballs off the cliffs. Notice the snowball in the upper left hand corner:

Bryce is at a really high elevation (9,000 highest) so the snow was really deep at some places. Notice Katherine and I are wearing sandals! The weather was nice, though.

We also did a lot of swimming in the hotel's indoor pool, but I didn't get any pictures. We had a great trip and we all want to go back in a few months! We're going to get a toddler carrier and go on some hikes, and do some horseback riding, and other stuff that wasn't open during the winter season.