Dinosaur Tracks

We arrived in Bryce Valley on Saturday evening and promptly crashed.  We were exhausted from our travels up here to Utah.  We left even though we knew that Munchkin was still sick.  It’s never an easy decision, but since she was dealing with things related to her allergies, we knew that it wouldn’t matter if we were home or away.  Either way, she’d be feeling less than stellar.  She was able to rest on the long car ride here.

The campground is surrounded by the beauty of nature, and it’s in the middle of nowhere.  If we need anything other than basic necessities, we’re pretty much out of luck as there aren’t any stores close by.  We’d have to travel 80 miles or so to the closest city where they would have stores.

On Sunday, we headed out to explore the area.  For the most part, we just stayed in the car, so she could continue to rest.  One of our stops was Bryce Canyon.  After we saw how crowded it was, we knew that we wouldn’t be doing too much there until after the Labor Day weekend was passed.

After making that decision, we stopped by to see the local park ranger and found out about a place that had dinosaur tracks.  Munchkin perked up at the mention of dinosaurs.  Off we went on a dinosaur track finding expedition.  It truly was an expedition as the location of the dinosaur tracks is known (to some extent), you honestly have to locate them for yourself after a good hike.

We had a blast, and we believe we even found some of the tracks.  Munchkin has decided that she wants to go back again and spend more time there looking.  (We had limited time due to the time of day we arrived at the location.)  It was so much fun watching her get so excited.  After all, it isn’t every day that you get to find genuine dinosaur tracks.

You have to climb on top of this formation to get to the location where you can hunt for dinosaur tracks.  It’s quite the hike to get back here, and then you need to climb to get to the top.  (Honestly, getting down almost seems worse than going up…)  Munchkin got the adrenaline burst to do this even though she was feeling yucky all day.  She was on cloud nine the whole time.  In the picture, you can see Munchkin and D just climbing on the lower portion of the site.  We were no where near the top of the formation at this point in time.

Up next, the Red Canyons.