Winding down

We left the Grand Canyon yesterday morning. The kids and I headed back to Zion, trying to stretch out the peace and beauty just a little longer, and Geoff headed to Vegas for some work meetings before flying home today.

When we arrived in Springdale, our room wasn’t ready yet so we decided to take the shuttle around Zion to kill some time. It wasn’t fricking air conditioned. OMG. So that became an hour long slog through hell.

It was too hot to do anything. Bodhi and I walked to dinner but the heat combined with the fact that our trip is winding down resulted in a blanket of melancholy settling over me.

But then. This morning I woke up a little after 5 and headed out to do The Watchman hike before the sun broke over the cliffs of Zion and rendered everything lava-esque. A lovely, peaceful, solo hike is just the emotional reset I needed.

Now we are in Las Vegas. Gross, garish Las Vegas. Ugh.

Before we checked into our hotel (a Marriott, of course) we went to a crazy place called Omega Mart. Hard to describe but here goes: Interactive art installation that infuses mystery, music, fantasy, and, of course, black lights in a very large space with many rooms to explore. The kids used words like crazy, stimulating, weird, and digital. It was fun. Very different from the past 9 days.

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