Yesterday evening was wet, and today has turned out to be a wet day too. We pulled out of the campground near Capitol Reef around 9 this morning or possibly it was 9:30. Either way, we were pleased with our time.
We had basically one road to drive down, but it was a doozy. It was hwy 12 which is one of the most scenic drives in America. It was that, but I felt it was also a little on the treacherous side. Ha! Actually, I wasn't nearly as stressed as I was in Colorado leaving Denver.
The scenery was gorgeous even with a steep drop off and no guard rails on both sides. There were turn outs every few feet almost plus we were listening to our audio guide with information about what we were seeing.
Before we even go to the scenic views, we had dealt with construction and a super long traffic light, a heard of cows in the road, and even crazy foggy weather. Thankfully, by the time we made it to the on top of a mountain part, everything had cleared up, and the drive was super nice-maybe because Robby was going pretty slowly so he could take it all in as well.
We arrived to our campground in Ruby's Inn right outside of Bryce Canyon just as the rain started. We ate as it rained. When there was a break in the rain, Robby hooked everything up, and we unhooked the car. Then the rain started, and it went on and on.
Robby caught up on some work while the kids did school. Campbell is making her way through college algebra so she just has a test to do tomorrow, and then we can be finished with that at least this week. After school was finished, we had to wait on the rain to finish.
When it did, we headed towards the visitor's center. We did all the things there-bought a sticker, got our stamps, bought 2 postcards (one for an obu kid and one for a little friend studying the states), and turned in our jr ranger booklet plus at this park we even watched the movie. I stayed awake during it because I was busy working on writing the postcards.
We then drove around the park some-we didn't see anything of note except we did drive around all of the campgrounds plus we looked in the lodge. We like to check out all of the campgrounds just so we can see what we are missing by not being in the campground. Here, we aren't missing anything since we have power and water.
Then we drove out of the park, through town, and to another section of the park to walk Mossy Creek Trail. It was just a short little hike, about a mile, to see a cave and to see a waterfall. We were even able to see some pretty cool hoodoos on the hike.
We then stopped at the general store in town. Pretty much everything in this town is Ruby's something or another. We are at Ruby's campground, and we went to Ruby's General Store beside Ruby's Inn right near Ruby's Laundromat. Seriously, good for Ruby. I think that she was actually an earlier settler here, and her family still runs all of this.
The store was massive-we all got separated, but we eventually found every in the food section. We were all hungry. I guess I took the crock pot out so when we went to make the soup for supper earlier, we realized that we would have to make it on the stove. It was just a bag soup so it only took 15 minutes, but that was a long 15 minutes.
After eating, we played Whitman's warewolf game before urging everyone go to go bed. Tomorrow is an early morning!
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