Cathedral Valley

On our way to Capital Reef National Park we stopped at the Scipio Petting Zoo, which I love! This seriously is one of the best petting zoos I have ever been too. It's free and you don't have to wait in a giant line (like at baby animal days).

 Once we made it to Capital Reef we first stopped to talk to the rangers at the Visitor's Center. They basically said we shouldn't do the drive because the road was bad and it had been raining, but we have an awesome car and decided to do it anyway. But, before the drive we had a nice rest in Fruita were it's super green and has lots of fruit trees and there are deer everywhere. I tried to get close to the deer, but they are still a little weary of people. 

Cathedral Valley Drive

The drive is about a 60 mile trip. We ended up doing the first half and then going back, because there had been rain and we didn't want to get stuck in the sand. We decided to be smart and safe. The rangers were wrong about the part of the road we went on though. We had no problems what so ever and we barely needed our 4 wheel drive. 

The temple of the Sun and Moon and Glass Mountain.

 Glass Mountain was pretty sweet, but it was more like a glass mound, the mountain part makes it seem like it should be a lot bigger. It was made of crystal! It was really cool, although the whole time I wanted to clean off all the dirt on it. :)

 The Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon were really cool too. They were basically identical, besides their obvious size difference. 

 The sky was super pretty, because of the thunder storms that were rolling in. 

 We kept trading off turns on trying to capture a picture of the lightning at night. We had a long night of being too hot and not having our rain fly on and then it raining again and then it getting too hot and so forth. 

 Our little camp up against some rocks and out of the way of washes so we wouldn't get extra wet.

I was excited that we got a little mud on our car! 

 We went back to the sun and moon to take some pictures when there was more sun. 

We tried to get some photos of glass mountain glistening, but it was pretty hard. 

We called this little black rock valley thing Mordor (for Lord of the Ring Fans). 

 The Gypsum Sink Hole. It was a big hole. 

Just hanging out. 

 We ended our adventure in the little town of Torrey. We decided to stay in these awesome little cabins for 35 bucks.. It was just one little room, but had 2 beds and a small TV. There was a shared bathroom (with a shower), but no one else was there so we got them to ourselves. It was great! The rest of the trip was lazy and relaxing. We walked around town and got some good food and then we went home.