Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Our Trip to St. George, Utah and Red and Bryce Canyons, Utah

We left home on Monday 9 March 2009 around 10.15 a.m. to go to St. George, Utah, for several days. The distance was about 300 miles (480 km). We were going to stay at the World Mark by Wyndham. We had a nice 1 bedroom unit with a king-size bed for our use. It was on the 2nd floor but there was an elevator and they had those hotel trolleys for luggage that we could use. This made taking our luggage upstairs quite easy.
On Tuesday we went out for breakfast to Denny's and then bought a few things at Smith’s Supermarket. The GPS found Smith’s for us but it couldn’t find an Albertson’s supermarket, which must have been too new. The GPS also couldn't find World Mark so we had to phone there to get directions as to how to get there.

Later on we saw an Albertson’s and I went to it when I had to buy a few things there that Vance needed.

Worldmark by Wyndham is a travel share, a friend of ours allowed us to use the facilities since they had bought credits, it used to be called time share. We were invited to a presentation to see if we were interested in buying into it.













We enjoyed our stay at Worldmark and it is nice to have so much room, we had a dining area with a standing full kitchen with a fridge that has an ice maker, and a stove. There was a nice square table with 4 chairs. The bed was nice and comfortable and the bathroom was very nice as well. We were only on the second floor with an elevator further along the outside balcony walkway or a set of stairs very near out door. We chose to do the stairs a few times when the car wasn’t nearby and to just go over to the office for the sales presentation and the pick up our one free movie that they give you.

On Wednesday Vance was up to our planned outing to Bryce Canyon. I had planned for us to go either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on how Vance was. He wasn’t up to it on Tuesday but was on Wednesday. We had breakfast at JB's restaurant this time .



We drove through 2 of these tunnels which were made in the red rock. It was surely a lovely drive.

We had a lovely time in Bryce Canyon and saw some deer as well. It snowed in Salt Lake City as we were leaving on Monday. and it had apparently snowed in Bryce Canyon as well that evening, so we saw the lovely snow on the red mountains.


























We also saw some wild deer. I managed to capture a photo of one with a little one.











Just think of what the weather and the elements did to the mountains to give us such a lovely view to see.

We have proof that we were here by having someone taken a photo of the 2 of us





















We stopped at the Visitors' Center on our way out of the Canyon and we watched a nice movie on the Bryce Canyon National Park.