Off to Zion.

7:20AM: It's off to Zion today! Or at least once Holly gets motivated to get out of bed. Breakfast being served here at Fitness Ridge today is cold cereal with rice/soy milk. Not one of our all time favorites. So we are going to see if we can do a low calorie breakfast on the road to Zion. We're going to make today an all day test of how well we can actually do in the real world to sticking to our calorie limits. Tonight I'll let you know how well we did and how the trip to Zion went.

10:15PM: whole round trip alBefore going to Zion, we stopped at the Bear Paw in St. George for breakfast. Yum. Definitely beat cold cereal for breakfast. At Zion we started on the Pa'rus trail but accidentally started up the Watchman trail so had to double back to the beginning of the Pa'rus.


Came across some benches but none of that relaxing stuff for us!









We hiked along the Virgin river to the end, getting some great photos.





It was great to get to the end, but then there was still the trip back. Holly can really get moving. Very tough for me to keep up.




After getting back to the car, we went for a drive east going up and through the tunnels. What beautiful scenery. Stopped for lunch at Blondie's diner. An old house near Zion next to the Domestic Elk Park that was converted to a diner. They have some great food. Holly had the buffalo burger and I had the elk burger. Great ultra-lean meat that is also very tasty!






On the way back to Fitness Ridge, since we had some extra time we stopped at the Johnson Dinosaur Track Museum. Pretty cool place.

Sharon showed us our slide show/video for the week, then it was off to the buffet for our "eating test".

Now I'm tired and ready for bed.






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