3 States

Today, we had a bit of a slow start, but this time we hadn’t planned to have a slow start. We checked out of the hotel, in which I slept really nice.

We went to Walmart to buy ourselves some lunch, because we were planning on spending most of the day in Zion National Park. I took some home made pasta salad with me for lunch.

We headed off to Zion, stopping in Springdale. Here, we rented some hybrid bikes. We drove our bikes up to the visitor centre, were we gained some information about the park. We then took the shuttle bus, putting our bikes on the bike rack at the front of the bus, all the way up to the top of the canyon, so we only had to ride down! We stopped a few times, once to have lunch at the riverside. I would describe Zion as a little oasis in a hot desert. There are lots of plants and trees there, while the park self lies in the middle of a desert.

During one of our stops, we saw an elk standing right next to us, with her children (which were probably just about a day old)!

We drove our bikes back to town, got in our car, and drove through the desert towards....

VEGAS! We went from Utah, to Arizona, to Nevada, gaining one hour of time as we drove through a time zone!

We drove to our hotel straight away, to freshen ourselves up. Driving, we saw some of the famous buildings, like the stratosphere hotel, the pyramid, and many many lighted billboards. We are staying at Downtown The Grand Hotel and Casino, in the northern part. After we had freshened up, we went to dinner at VegeNation, a nice vegan restaurant. Really lovely food. Unfortunately, when you are with a larger group, you have to pay 20% gratitude over your food. The food was really delicious though! I had quesadillas, with beans, sweet potato, some veggies and really tasteful sauce.

When we headed towards the strip, as it was already dark, the city came alive. There was some live music, people were all over the streets and there were lights everywhere. We took an Uber to go to the strip, visited some of the hotels, under which circus circus, where we saw a woman riding a unicycle. We also had to play at a few of the casinos. I actually turned one dollar into 5,35 by playing deal or no deal with just one dollar! It was a lot of fun to do and to see! After seeing some of the madness, we were all pretty tired, so we went back to our hotel for a good night rest. See you tomorrow! Cheers!