The kids gave us a gift certificate for a helicopter ride for Christmas! We wanted to wait until the best time to use it. We thought about it earlier, but there were fires going and it was too smoky to see anything. Now seemed like a great time! It was really fun to see things from that vantage point. We did most of the tour over Canaan Mountain/Water Canyon area just outside of Zion. They cannot fly in the Zion Park footprint airspace. We saw the place where they used to do the mail drop over the cliff and also the notch where they dropped lumber down. We flew over Canaan Arch too. There were 7 of us (3 couples and one pilot) in the helicopter. It was pretty tight, but good. One girl got a little queasy with some of the turns, but I hadn't had any breakfast and that was probably a good thing. It ended up being about 30 minutes long - 55 miles. What an adventure!!! Thanks to everyone for such a fun adventure gift!
Afterwards, since we were up that way, we went to Zion and walked the Pa'rus trail. It was really crowded up there, but we finally found a parking spot. It was wonderful weather for it and so pretty. Then we drove to Cedar City and had lunch with Bean and drove up to see Yankee Meadow Reservoir. It's way low this year, very sad.
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