zion's national park

we hiked up to emerald pools at zion's national park. it was totally awesome and the views were amazing.
it was only a little over 2 miles, but with a three year old it felt like the longest distance.
the whole way up was amazing and elijah climbed rocks and jumped around he loved it.
i love the green trees against the red rock from the cliffs it's just beautiful.


this was at the top, you can tell it wasn't just a little stroll, elijah is drenched in sweat.
pretty gross actually.


i took a picture of my dad's hat sitting on a tree branch on the highest
emerald pool. then played with it a little in photoshop. fun to see all those shapes, colors,
and shawdows.


this was actually the lowest pool, but my pictures got mixed up a little
there was this little trickle of a waterfall and we hiked through a path that
felt like it was cut out from the rock. it was nice and cool during this part of the hike.


here's a picture looking underneath the waterfall to the path
on the other side. everyone's over there waiting for us. we were
a little slow.



and here's mario showing grandma how close her
grandbaby got to the edge of the cliff. it was a pretty far drop.


we took a ton of pictures going up, and not a picture coming back down.
by the end we were all hot and tired and elijah cried the whole way down
i refused to carry him so i made him walk, poor kid.
i pretty much pulled him down the mountain, my arm hurt for
three days after that. it was hard, but i'm glad we did it. it was beautiful up there
and now elijah thinks he's a rock climber or something.