How sweet to be back to Seattle

Hello everyblogger,

How are you all doing? Yessss, I'm back to Seattle. Alex and I were traveling around with my parents who came to visit us. They stayed 4 weeks with us... We rented an RV and planed to visit the Southwest! So, our first stop was San Francisco. We all fell in love with this city. Then we saw the biggest, largest living thing in the world, that a sequoia, a giant tree. After that, we arrived to Las Vegas. This city is completely crazy. We managed to loose only 50 bucks and not to be drunk, not as many many people there. Really, that's crazy to see how people can loose their values and think that money is the best thing in the world. They spend, spend, spend until they have (almost) nothing left. Well, one night was enough. I'm happy to have seen this city, and actually, it was my second time there, but I don't feel the need to go back again.

The madness gave way to the beauty. We went to Grand canyon (it's very big), then to Monument Valley (it was like in movies) and then we left Arizona to go to Mesa Verde NP, in Colorado. We saw Native Americans' houses built in the rocks in order to protect themselves against the enemies. Gorgeous.

After that, we spend 10 days in Utah. Utah is likely the most awsome State in the US. Arches NP, Capitol Reef NP, Grand Staircase Monument, Bryce Canyon and Zion: all these parks and monuments are great. My favorite is Bryce Canyon. We went down the canyon and hikes a little bit. We hiked in Zion, too, and the vultures (kind of big eagle) were flying above us. Obviously, we didn't die and they didn't have a nice dinner...

We also spent one hour in Salt Lake City. Here again, we can use a superlative: the saddest city in the world. Downtown was gloomy, we barely saw one guy walking in the streets and it was impossible to drink a beer, a glass of wine, even a coffee. It's banned by the Mormons. There was no reason to stay there, so we pursued towards Grand Teton and Yellowstone NP. Great idea. In Yellowstone, we admired not only the geysers, but also the wildlife. We saw a young grizzli bear, some white pelicans, a wolf, a coyote, tons of buffalos, some elks, a marmott, even two snakes! I can say that our trip was successful!

And what about you? What happened in your life during this time? plenty of good events is that right? I hope to see you soon,

Stephanie

PS: Chris and Jiri, I posted a comment for you on Jiri's hockey writing (do you see what I mean?)
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